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CVE-2018-18650
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-10-25T13:29:00.237 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:47:38.380

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.

Affected products

xpdfreader — xpdf

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References

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