PT-2018-17930 · Foolabs+1 · Xpdf+1

Skysider · Published 2018-02-15 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2018-7174

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 xpdf version 4.00

Description An issue in xpdf allows an attacker to cause denial of service due to an infinite loop in XRef::Xref. This occurs because loop detection exists only for tables, not streams.

Recommendations For xpdf version 4.00, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-7174

Affected Products

Debian

Xpdf

References · 8

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7174 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7174 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7174 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7174 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7174 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7174 · Vendor Advisory
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=605 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7174 · Vendor Advisory