PT-2018-18433

CVE-2018-8104

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Published

2018-03-14

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Updated

2019-10-03

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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: The issue allows attackers to launch a denial of service, resulting in a heap-based buffer over-read and application crash, via a specific pdf file. This can be demonstrated using the pdftohtml tool.
Recommendations: For xpdf version 4.00, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version is susceptible to a denial of service attack. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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