PT-2018-17931 · Gnu+1 · Xpdf+1

Published 2018-02-15 · Updated 2018-03-06 · CVE-2018-7175

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 was discovered that allows an attacker to cause denial of service via a JPX image with zero components, due to a NULL pointer dereference in the readCodestream function.

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

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-7175

Affected Products

Debian

Xpdf

References · 8

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7175 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7175 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=613 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7175 · Vendor Advisory