PT-2018-17393 · Artifex · Mupdf

Young_X · Published 2018-01-24 · Updated 2024-09-11 · CVE-2018-6187

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 Artifex MuPDF version 1.12.0

Description The issue is a heap-based buffer overflow in the do pdf save document function, located in the pdf/pdf-write.c file. This can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted pdf file to cause a denial of service.

Recommendations For Artifex MuPDF version 1.12.0, consider restricting access to the do pdf save document function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid processing crafted pdf files that could trigger the buffer overflow. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6187

DSA-4334-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1

Affected Products

Mupdf

References · 56

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698908 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5686 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6187 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6187 · 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mupdf · Vendor Advisory