CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-18651

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-10-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-10-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-834

Description

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.00. catalog->getNumPages() in AcroForm.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service (hang caused by large loop) via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. This is mainly caused by a large number after the /Count field in the file.

Affected configurations

• xpdfreader xpdf 4.00

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-834 Excessive Iteration weakness

References