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CVE-2018-13988 Detail

Description

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140 Third Party Advisory 
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/ Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2018-13988
NVD Published Date:
07/25/2018
NVD Last Modified:
04/25/2019
Source:
MITRE