CVE-2018-18650

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.00. XRef::readXRefStream in XRef.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service (Integer Overflow) via a crafted /Size value in a pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. This is mainly caused by the program attempting a malloc operation for a large amount of memory.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 25, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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