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    CVE-2018-1000040

    In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple use of uninitialized value bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or influence program flow via a crafted file.

    Published:May 24, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:May 24, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.00262
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Artifex
    Product
    Mupdf
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux

    Exploits

    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2026-7233 (CVSS 1.9) — A vulnerability was determined in Artifex MuPDF up to 1.28.0. The impacted element is the function fz_subset_c…
    CVE-2026-40505 (CVSS 4.8) — MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary…
    CVE-2026-3308 (CVSS 7.8) — An integer overflow vulnerability in 'pdf-image.c' in Artifex's MuPDF version 1.27.0 allows an attacker to mal…
    CVE-2025-15569 (CVSS 7.3) — A flaw has been found in Artifex MuPDF up to 1.26.1 on Windows. The impacted element is the function get_syste…
    CVE-2026-25556 (CVSS 5.9) — MuPDF versions 1.23.0 through 1.27.0 contain a double-free vulnerability in fz_fill_pixmap_from_display_list()…
    CVE-2025-55780 (CVSS 7.5) — A null pointer dereference occurs in the function break_word_for_overflow_wrap() in MuPDF 1.26.4 when renderin…
    CVE-2025-46206 (CVSS 6.5) — An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite…
    CVE-2024-46657 (CVSS 5.5) — Artifex Software mupdf v1.24.9 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component /tools/pdfextr…
    CVE-2024-24259 (CVSS 7.5) — freeglut through 3.4.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the menuEntry variable in the glutAddMenuEn…

    References

    http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83d4dae44c71816c084a635550acc1a51529b881%3Bhp=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698904
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699086
    https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=ace9e69017c08e1e4ce5912014177414c0382004
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
    https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334
    http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=83d4dae44c71816c084a635550acc1a51529b881%3Bhp=f597300439e62f5e921f0d7b1e880b5c1a1f1607
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5596
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5600
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5603
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5609
    https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5610
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698904
    https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699086
    https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=ace9e69017c08e1e4ce5912014177414c0382004
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
    https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4334

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High