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CVE-2018-16646

Date: September 6, 2018

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.

Language: SHELL

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16646
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16646
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00004.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16646
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-16646

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CWE-835

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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