Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in podofo - CVE-2018-5296

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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in podofo - CVE-2018-5296

Published: January 8, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37701
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-2018-5296
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 PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function (base/PdfParser.cpp). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.


Affected software

podofo
podofo (Alpine package)
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2018-5296

Install update from vendor's website.

podofo (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.7-r0

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