CVE-2018-5686

medium

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00027.html

https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=b70eb93f6936c03d8af52040bbca4d4a7db39079

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698860

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-01-14

Updated: 2024-09-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium