PT-2018-2760

CVE-2018-20551

Published

2018-12-28

Updated

2021-12-01

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CVSS 3.1

6.5

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Poppler version 0.72.0

Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the Poppler library, which can lead to a denial of service. Specifically, it involves the construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c. This can cause a reachable Object::getString assertion, allowing attackers to exploit the issue.

Recommendations For Poppler version 0.72.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

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