CVE-2018-19149 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2018-19149?

CVE-2018-19149 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Nov 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 before 0.70.0 has a NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new when called from poppler_annot_file_attachment_get_attachment.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-19149?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Freedesktop Poppler.

How do I fix CVE-2018-19149?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-19149 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-19149 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-2018-19149, GHSA-8334-q57q-jpp2, MGASA-2018-0498, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19149.