UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7173

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7173

    Published: 15 Feb 2018Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-7173

    Summary:

    Details: A large loop in JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg in xpdf 4.00 allows an attacker to cause denial of service via a specific file due to inappropriate decoding.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7173, https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=607, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7173

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ipe

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ipe?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    7.1.4-2.1
    7.1.8-1
    7.1.10-1
    7.1.10-1.1

    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