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CVE-2018-17338

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue has been found in pdfalto through 0.2. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function TextPage::dump in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.

Affected products

• Pdfalto Project Pdfalto: through 0.2

References

• https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/pdfalto#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-textpagedump
• https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues/29
• https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/pdfalto#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-textpagedump
• https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues/29

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