Medium
Security advisory
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-20662
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:27 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Poppler 0.72.0, PDFDoc::setup in PDFDoc.cc allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by Object.h SIGABRT, because of a wrong return value from PDFDoc::setup) by crafting a PDF file in which an xref data structure is mishandled during extractPDFSubtype processing.
osv:CVE-2018-20662
Complete source record
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