Security Advisory

CVE-2018-18651

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-10-25 13:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 22:19:56
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.00. catalog->getNumPages() in AcroForm.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service (hang caused by large loop) via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. This is mainly caused by a large number after the /Count field in the file.