PT-2018-17083 · Artifex · Mupdf

Probefuzzer · Published 2018-01-14 · Updated 2024-09-12 · CVE-2018-5686

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: MuPDF version 1.12.0

Description: The issue is related to an infinite loop vulnerability and application hang in the pdf parse array function, located in pdf/pdf-parse.c, due to the failure to consider the End Of File (EOF). This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by providing a crafted pdf file.

Recommendations: For MuPDF version 1.12.0, consider disabling the pdf parse array function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict access to crafted pdf files to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5686

DLA-1838-1

DSA-4334-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1

Affected Products

Mupdf

References · 60

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698860 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-5686 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5686 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4334-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6187 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5686 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17866 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000037 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1838-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mupdf · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15 · Vendor Advisory