PT-2018-18081 · Foolabs+1 · Xpdf+1

Skysider · Published 2018-02-24 · Updated 2018-03-17 · CVE-2018-7455

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 The issue is related to an out-of-bounds read in the JPXStream::readTilePart function in JPXStream.cc. This can be exploited by attackers to launch a denial of service attack via a specifically crafted pdf file, as demonstrated by the pdftohtml tool.

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

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-7455

Affected Products

Debian

Xpdf

References · 8

• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=654&p=819#p819 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7455 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7455 · Security Note