PT-2018-18429 · Foolabs+1 · Xpdf+1

Skysider · Published 2018-03-14 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2018-8100

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: xpdf version 4.00

Description: The issue allows attackers to launch a denial of service, causing a heap-based buffer overflow and application crash, or possibly have other unspecified impacts via a specific pdf file. This is demonstrated by the use of 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.

DoS

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8100

Affected Products

Debian

Xpdf

References · 9

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8100 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8100 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8100 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8100 · Security Note
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=652 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8100 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-8100 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8100 · Vendor Advisory
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=654&p=819#p819 · Note