Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19060
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-19060
Complete source record
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