CVE-2018-5296

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5296
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5296.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-5296
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-01-08T07:29:00.713Z
Modified
2026-07-08T16:40:56.372349Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function (base/PdfParser.cpp). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/podofo/podofo

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/podofo/podofo
Events
Introduced
8c0d67e192b44082533dfb1fa4702847bd4d5103
Last affected
8c0d67e192b44082533dfb1fa4702847bd4d5103
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.9.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.9.5"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:podofo_project:podofo:0.9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-5296.json"