vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3886-1 (CVE-2018-20551): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 28, 2018
Added
Feb 16, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler73ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler79ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils
Title
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