CVE-2018-6187

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0, there is a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the do_pdf_save_document function in the pdf/pdf-write.c file. Remote attackers could leverage the vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a crafted pdf file.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: 1.12.0
Debian Linux: 9.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102823
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698908
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=3e30fbb7bf5efd88df431e366492356e7eb969ec
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102823
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698908
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334

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