PT-2018-18079 · Foolabs+1 · Xpdf+1

Skysider · Published 2018-02-24 · Updated 2018-03-17 · CVE-2018-7452

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 A NULL pointer dereference in JPXStream::fillReadBuf in JPXStream.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml.

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

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-7452

Affected Products

Debian

Xpdf

References · 8

• 🔥 https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=613 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7452 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7452 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7452 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7452 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7452 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7452 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7452 · Security Note