Security advisory

{
  "id": "8b3d0b78d811f7a9e3e3f7a933d9093bb15fd7e9a5fbbc679edf76dd545b0f77",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16646",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-16646",
    "summary": "In Poppler 0.68.0, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-16646",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-16646",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-16646"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "c666833e4163a93451eab27c675af9ca82d11593"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "c666833e4163a93451eab27c675af9ca82d11593"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.68.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.68.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.68.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.68.0",
            "poppler-0.68.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-16646.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:02.519901460Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00040.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00004.html",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-1/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3837-2/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1622951"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
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                    "introduced": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
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                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                  },
                  {
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                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.10"
                  },
                  {
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                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
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                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-16646",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440029,
  "published_at": "2018-09-06T23:29:01.71+00:00"
}