PT-2018-13523 · Foolabs+1 · Xpdf+1

Fish · Published 2018-09-03 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-16368

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 Xpdf version 4.00

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a heap-based buffer over-read, by providing a crafted pdf file. This can be demonstrated using the pdftoppm tool.

Recommendations For Xpdf version 4.00, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent a denial of service.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-16368

Affected Products

Debian

Xpdf

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/xpdf · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16368 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16368 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16368 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16368 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16368 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16368 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16368 · Vendor Advisory