PT-2018-14560 · Foxtan · Xpdf

Krace · Published 2018-10-25 · Updated 2018-12-06 · CVE-2018-18650

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 An issue in Xpdf allows attackers to launch a denial of service via a crafted /Size value in a pdf file. This is mainly caused by the program attempting a malloc operation for a large amount of memory, resulting in an integer overflow.

Recommendations For Xpdf version 4.00, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version is prone to denial of service attacks due to integer overflow. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-18650

Affected Products

Xpdf

References · 7

• 🔥 https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41219&p=41747#p41747 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-18650 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18650 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-18650 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18650 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18650 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152006 · Note