CVE-2018-16646

medium

Description

In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00004.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-06

Updated: 2020-07-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H