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Debian: CVE-2018-20481: poppler -- security update

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Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 25, 2018
Added
Mar 12, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc in Poppler 0.72.0 mishandles unallocated XRef entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted PDF document, when XRefEntry::setFlag in XRef.h is called from Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc.

Solution

debian-upgrade-poppler

References

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