CVE-2018-19059: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating embedded files before save attempts.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.71.0 only

Published 2018-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.