CVE-2018-18897: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.71.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-11-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.