CVE-2018-1000040

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple use of uninitialized value bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or influence program flow via a crafted file.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: through 1.12.0
Debian Linux: 9.0

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83d4dae44c71816c084a635550acc1a51529b881%3Bhp=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698904
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699086
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=ace9e69017c08e1e4ce5912014177414c0382004
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83d4dae44c71816c084a635550acc1a51529b881%3Bhp=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607

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