PT-2018-13989 · Pdfalto · Pdfalto

Published 2018-09-23 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-17338

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pdfalto versions prior to 0.3

Description A heap-based buffer overflow issue has been identified in the function TextPage::dump in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.3, update to version 0.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-17338

Affected Products

Pdfalto

References · 4

• 🔥 https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues/29 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/pdfalto#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-textpagedump · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17338 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17338 · Vendor Advisory