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CVE-2018-13988

poppler: out of bounds read in pdfunite

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 23, 2018

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Low, and a future update may address this flaw.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read