CVE-2018-13988 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2018-13988?

CVE-2018-13988 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Jul 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

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-13988?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler, Redhat Ansible Tower, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2018-13988?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-13988 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-13988 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• 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-2018-13988, GHSA-hj59-vghc-34x7, MGASA-2018-0358, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13988, USN-3757-1.