CVE-2017-18185

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    CVE-2017-18185

    Published: 13 Feb 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is a large heap-based out-of-bounds read in the Pl_Buffer::write function in Pl_Buffer.cc. It is caused by an integer overflow in the PNG filter.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3638-1/, https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/150, https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/ec7d74a386c0b2f38990079c3b0d2a2b30be0e71

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0f1ce8e6461d417d1fed2ea4a0cbf27f10ee4eff

    Affected versions

    release-qpdf-7.0.b1

    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
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