CVE-2018-20662: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.

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 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only; version 29 only; version 30 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.72.0 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 2019-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.