VDB
GHSA-hj59-vghc-34x7
GHSA-hj59-vghc-34x7
PUBLISHED
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022
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.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Timeline
- May 14, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13988 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505 url
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-13988 url
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1602838 url
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=004e3c10df0abda214f0c293f9e269fdd979c5ee url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3757-1 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 url
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140 url
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/148661/PDFunite-0.62.0-Buffer-Overflow.html url