Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpodofo  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-LIBPODOFO-646178
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed27 Jan 2018

Introduced: 27 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-6352  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpodofo package and not the libpodofo package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there is an Excessive Iteration in the PdfParser::ReadObjectsInternal function of base/PdfParser.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service through a crafted pdf file.