CVE-2018-1000036

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-772

Description

In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple memory leaks in the PDF parser allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted file.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: through 1.12.0
Debian Linux: 9.0

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5502
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698887
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=8aa2bd34065d2844aae778bd4cc20c74bbcd9406
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5502
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698887
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15

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