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CVE-2018-5296

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• 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: 2018-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function (base/PdfParser.cpp). Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted pdf file.

Affected products

• podofo: 0.9.5

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531956
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531956

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