CVE-2018-1000040

MEDIUM

Artifex MuPDF < 1.12.0 - Denial of Service via PDF Parser Uninitialized Value Bugs

Title source: llm

Description

In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple use of uninitialized value bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or influence program flow via a crafted file.

References (11)

Core 11

Core References

Patch

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83d4dae44c71816c084a635550acc1a51529b881%3Bhp=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607

Exploit, Issue Tracking

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596

Exploit, Issue Tracking

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600

Exploit, Issue Tracking

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609

Exploit, Issue Tracking

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610

Various Sources

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698904

Various Sources

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699086

Patch

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=ace9e69017c08e1e4ce5912014177414c0382004

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0026

EPSS Percentile 49.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-20

Status published

Products (2)

artifex/mupdf < 1.12.0

debian/debian_linux 9.0

Published May 24, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026