CVE-2018-10768 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2018-10768?

CVE-2018-10768 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10768?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler, Redhat Ansible Tower, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10768?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-10768 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10768 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10768, GHSA-vj6w-p4m3-pj3w, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10768.