CVE-2018-18651

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.00. catalog-getNumPages in AcroForm.cc allows attackers to launch a denial of service hang caused by large loop via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml. This is mainly caused by a large number after the /Count field in the file...

CVE-2018-18651

CVE-2018-18651 affects Xpdf 4.00: the code path catalog->getNumPages() in AcroForm.cc can hang due to a crafted PDF, caused by a large /Count value, enabling a denial-of-service condition (via pdftohtml). Documents consistently describe a denial-of-service scenario from large loop behavior but...