PT-2018-16877 · Podofo+2 · Podofo+2

Published 2018-01-08 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2018-5296

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 The issue is related to an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service by providing a crafted pdf file.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, consider applying a patch or fix that controls memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function to prevent denial-of-service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2018-5296

MGASA-2019-0044

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

Suse

References · 63

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531956 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5296 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/QYCCO7ZOZI6KUCLH6IZ5XS5LDANULNR4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5296 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0044.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2019-0044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/2U7MKKI2OP43FRIS44DJXIJYDWTNAWQ6 · Vendor Advisory