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CVE-2018-18650
medium
Description
An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.00. XRef::readXRefStream in XRef.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service (Integer Overflow) via a crafted /Size value in a pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. This is mainly caused by the program attempting a malloc operation for a large amount of memory.
References
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41219&p=41747#p41747