Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting mupdf package, versions [,1.13.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MUPDF-2367829
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mupdf to version 1.13.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Recursion pdf_load_obj_stm in pdf/pdf-xref.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 could reference the object stream recursively and therefore run out of error stack, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document.

CVSS Base Scores

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