CVE-2018-18456 (NVD)

2018-10-18

The function Object::isName() in Object.h (called from Gfx::opSetFillColorN) in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftoppm.

Products Xpdf
Type Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41217
https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/xpdf/2018_10_16/pdftoppm