PT-2018-17930

CVE-2018-7174

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Published

2018-02-15

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Updated

2019-10-03

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xpdf version 4.00
Description An issue in xpdf allows an attacker to cause denial of service due to an infinite loop in XRef::Xref. This occurs because loop detection exists only for tables, not streams.
Recommendations For xpdf version 4.00, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (\'Infinite Loop\')
Related identifiers
CVE-2018-7174
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