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CVE-2018-5783

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an uncontrolled memory allocation in the PoDoFo::PdfVecObjects::Reserve function (base/PdfVecObjects.h). 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=1536179
• https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/27/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536179
• https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/27/

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