CVE-2018-10768: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h in an Ubuntu package for Poppler 0.24.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack. Later Ubuntu packages such as for Poppler 0.41.0 are not affected.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: before 0.41.0 (fixed in 0.41.0)
• Red Hat Ansible Tower: version 3.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.