CVE-2018-12983

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A stack-based buffer over-read in the PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeEncryptionKey() function in PdfEncrypt.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 could be leveraged by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

arch Arch Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.9.8+dfsg-2
sid Fixed 0.9.8+dfsg-2
forky Fixed 0.9.8+dfsg-2
bullseye Affected
bookworm Fixed 0.9.8+dfsg-2

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.