CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-7173
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-15
- 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-172
Description
A large loop in JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg in xpdf 4.00 allows an attacker to cause denial of service via a specific file due to inappropriate decoding.
Affected configurations
• xpdfreader xpdf 4.00
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-172 Improper Encoding or Decoding of Data weakness
References
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=607 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=607 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory