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CVE-2018-13988 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/03/2018
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.5 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 2.8

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows disruption of service

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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/RHSA-2018:3140
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
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/ Third Party Advisory

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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:
11/01/2018