PT-2018-17624 · Artifex · Artifex Mupdf

Kim Gwan Yeong · Published 2018-02-02 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2018-6544

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document. This is due to the pdf load obj stm function in pdf/pdf-xref.c referencing the object stream recursively, which can lead to running out of error stack.

Recommendations For Artifex MuPDF version 1.12.0, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as no specific fix is provided for this version. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the processing of crafted PDF documents to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6544

DSA-4152-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1

Affected Products

Artifex Mupdf

References · 43

• 🔥 https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698965 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6544 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6544 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4152-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-6544 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6544 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-6544 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11068-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-6544 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-6544 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mupdf · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-4152-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000051 · Security Note
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4152 · Vendor Advisory