CVE-2018-19149

Publication date 10 November 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

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Description

Poppler before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: f162ecd

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3837-2
poppler regression
11 December 2018

USN-3837-1
poppler vulnerabilities
4 December 2018

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19149

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