PT-2018-10427 · Podofo+4 · Podofo+4

Published 2018-05-18 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2018-11255

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PoDoFo version 0.9.5

Description An issue in the function PdfPage::GetPageNumber() in PdfPage.cpp allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted PDF document.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, consider avoiding the use of the PdfPage::GetPageNumber() function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted PDF documents to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2018-11255

MGASA-2019-0044

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2019:1849-1

USN-7217-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Linuxmint

Podofo

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 68

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575502 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7217-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10723 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-30471 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-11255 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/QYCCO7ZOZI6KUCLH6IZ5XS5LDANULNR4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8002 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-11255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-30470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0044.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:1849-1 · Vendor Advisory