Bug 1542264 (CVE-2018-6544) - CVE-2018-6544 mupdf: denial of service (DoS) via a crafted PDF document
Summary: CVE-2018-6544 mupdf: denial of service (DoS) via a crafted PDF document
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-6544
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1542265
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-06 00:00 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:39:22 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-06 00:00:51 UTC 
A flaw was found in 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. 

References: 
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698965 
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698830 

Patch:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=b03def134988da8c800adac1a38a41a1f09a1d89 
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git;h=26527eef77b3e51c2258c8e40845bfbc015e405d
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-06 00:01:27 UTC 
Created mupdf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1542265]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:39:22 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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