CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-5686
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/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-835
Description
In MuPDF 1.12.0, there is an infinite loop vulnerability and application hang in the pdf_parse_array function (pdf/pdf-parse.c) because EOF is not considered. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted pdf file.
Affected configurations
• artifex mupdf 1.12.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698860 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=b70eb93f6936c03d8af52040bbca4d4a7db39079 cgit.ghostscript.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00027.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698860 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00027.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334 Third Party Advisory