6.5

CVE-2018-19060: canonical ubuntu_linux NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 6.5v3.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-19060DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19060
Published 07-11-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-19060 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in canonical ubuntu_linux. EPSS estimates a 1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.74%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 5
MGASA-2018-0465OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1RHSA-2019:2022SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1SUSE-SU-2023:2906-1SUSE-SU-2023:2907-1

Timeline

  1. 07-11-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a NULL pointer dereference in goo/GooString.h, will lead to denial of service, as demonstrated by utils/pdfdetach.cc not validating a filename of an embedded file before constructing a save path.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.74%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

77%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.74% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.74%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Canonical1 product
Debian1 product
  • poppler< 0.85.0-2
Freedesktop1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • poppler< 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.13 | < 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.9 | < 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.4

4 vendors · 4 products

References

7 links