CVE-2018-8002

medium

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists an infinite loop vulnerability in PdfParserObject::ParseFileComplete() in PdfParserObject.cpp which may result in stack overflow. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service or possibly unspecified other impact via a crafted pdf file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-44946 dos linux

r4xis · 2018-06-26

PoDoFo 0.9.5 - Buffer Overflow (PoC)

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OS impact

Arch Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.9.8+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.9.8+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.9.8+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Fixed	`0.9.8+dfsg-1`

References

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

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