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CVE-2018-16646 (GCVE-0-2018-16646)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-06 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:32
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2018-09-06 00:00
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      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2018-16646",
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