SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-19060

There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.74%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.74%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

CVSS 3.0
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.74% probability · 76th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
freedesktop/poppler · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.