CVE-2018-18650

MEDIUM

Xpdf 4.00 - Denial of Service via Crafted /Size Value in PDF File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.00. XRef::readXRefStream in XRef.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service (Integer Overflow) via a crafted /Size value in a pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. This is mainly caused by the program attempting a malloc operation for a large amount of memory.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41219&p=41747#p41747

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0092
EPSS Percentile 55.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (1)
xpdfreader/xpdf 4.00
Published Oct 25, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026