CVE-2018-18897

medium

Published 2019-09-12 · Modified 2019-09-12

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.85.0-2`
sid	Fixed	`0.85.0-2`
forky	Fixed	`0.85.0-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.85.0-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.85.0-2`

Red Hat Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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