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CVE-2018-20662
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-01-03T13:29:00.237 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:53:16.897

Summary

In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.

Affected products

freedesktop — poppler

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References

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