PT-2018-16885 · Podofo+4 · Podofo+4

Probefuzzer · Published 2018-01-09 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2018-5308

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 PoDoFo version 0.9.5

Description The issue arises from improper validation of memcpy arguments in the PdfMemoryOutputStream::Write function. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service or possibly other unspecified impacts by using a crafted pdf file.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, update to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version does not properly validate memcpy arguments in the PdfMemoryOutputStream::Write function. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2018-5308

MGASA-2019-0044

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1

SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1

USN-7217-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Linuxmint

Podofo

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 107

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532390 · 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/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/QYCCO7ZOZI6KUCLH6IZ5XS5LDANULNR4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8002 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5308 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-30470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1 · Vendor Advisory