Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-18897
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.71.0. There is a memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.
osv:CVE-2018-18897
Complete source record
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