ubuntu-cve-2018-18897
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-11-02 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
negligible
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-poppler-0.18",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-cpp0",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-glib8",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-qt4-4",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-qt5-1",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler58",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "poppler-utils",
            "binary_version": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "poppler",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/poppler@0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.33.0-0ubuntu3",
        "0.37.0-0ubuntu1",
        "0.38.0-0ubuntu1",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.1",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.3",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.4",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.5",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.6",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.7",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.8",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.10",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.11",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12",
        "0.41.0-0ubuntu1.13"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-poppler-0.18",
            "binary_version": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-cpp0v5",
            "binary_version": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-glib8",
            "binary_version": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler-qt5-1",
            "binary_version": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpoppler73",
            "binary_version": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "poppler-utils",
            "binary_version": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "poppler",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/poppler@0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.57.0-2ubuntu4",
        "0.57.0-2ubuntu5",
        "0.62.0-1ubuntu1",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu1",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.1",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.2",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.6",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.7",
        "0.62.0-2ubuntu2.8"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18897",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:45Z",
  "published": "2018-11-02T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18897"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4042-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18897"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-4042-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "negligible",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-18897"
  ]
}



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