CVE-2018-18650 (GCVE-0-2018-18650)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-25 13:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:09
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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