PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file
CVE-2023-28428

6.2MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Michaelrsweet

Status
PDFio
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 March 2023

What is CVE-2023-28428?

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.

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Affected Version(s)

pdfio <= 1.1.0

References

https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/security/advisorie...
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https://github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/commit/97d49556667...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.2
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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