Out of Bounds Read Vulnerability in Poppler 0.62: Memory Corruption and Denial of Service

Out of Bounds Read Vulnerability in Poppler 0.62: Memory Corruption and Denial of Service

CVE-2018-13988 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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