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CVE-2018-7173

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-172

Description

A large loop in JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg in xpdf 4.00 allows an attacker to cause denial of service via a specific file due to inappropriate decoding.

Affected products

• Xpdf: 4.00

References

• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=607
• https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=607

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