CVE-2018-19532

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the function PdfTranslator::setTarget() in pdftranslator.cpp of PoDoFo 0.9.6, while creating the PdfXObject, as demonstrated by podofoimpose. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19532

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19532.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202101-36

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`0.9.7-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.9.6+dfsg-4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.9.6+dfsg-4`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.9.6+dfsg-4`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.9.6+dfsg-4`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.9.6+dfsg-4`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.