CVE-2018-13988

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.

Category

6.5
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.54%
Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory freedesktop.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838 issue tracking third party advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html third party advisory mailing list
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988 issue tracking third party advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee patch vendor advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html vdb entry third party advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1/ third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-13988?
CVE-2018-13988 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-13988?
To fix CVE-2018-13988, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-13988 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2018-13988 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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