Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in podofo - CVE-2018-5783
Published: January 19, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37621
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5783
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PoDoFo::PdfVecObjects::Reserve function (base/PdfVecObjects.h). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted pdf file.
Affected software
podofo
Arch Linux
Fedora
podofo (Alpine package)
podofo
mingw-podofo
Arch Linux
Fedora
podofo (Alpine package)
podofo
mingw-podofo
How to mitigate CVE-2018-5783
Install update from vendor's website.
podofo (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.7-r0
podofo - update to 0.9.6-3.fc29
mingw-podofo - update to 0.9.6-5.fc29
podofo - update to 0.9.6-3.fc29
mingw-podofo - update to 0.9.6-5.fc29