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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-09-06

Updated: 2019-08-06

Type: CWE-400

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.3

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 6.5

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM