CVE-2018-5686

Severity Score

5.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

In MuPDF 1.12.0, there is an infinite loop vulnerability and application hang in the pdf_parse_array function (pdf/pdf-parse.c) because EOF is not considered. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted pdf file.

En MuPDF 1.12.0, hay una vulnerabilidad de bucle infinito y bloqueo de aplicación en la función pdf_parse_array (pdf/pdf-parse.c) debido a que no se considera EOF. Los atacantes remotos pueden aprovechar esta vulnerabilidad para provocar una denegación de servicio (DoS) mediante un archivo pdf manipulado.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2018-01-13 CVE Reserved
2018-01-14 CVE Published
2024-09-12 CVE Updated
2024-09-12 First Exploit
2024-09-13 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CAPEC

References (5)

URL	Tag	Source
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00027.html	Mailing List
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=b70eb93f6936c03d8af52040bbca4d4a7db39079

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698860	2024-09-12

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15	2020-01-30
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334	2020-01-30

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Artifex Search vendor "Artifex"		Mupdf Search vendor "Artifex" for product "Mupdf"				1.12.0 Search vendor "Artifex" for product "Mupdf" and version "1.12.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected