CVE-2018-7174 in Xpdf

Summary

An issue was discovered in xpdf 4.00. An infinite loop in XRef::Xref allows an attacker to cause denial of service because loop detection exists only for tables, not streams.

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• Reservation: 02/15/2018
• Disclosure: 02/15/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-113499 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.9
• EPSS: 0.00177
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7174
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7174
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-7174/