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CVE-2018-20551

Publication date 28 December 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.5
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.7
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H