CVE-2023-28428

Summary

CVECVE-2023-28428
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-20 15:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-03-24 18:35:00 UTC
DescriptionPDFio 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pdfio Project Pdfio All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fix potential denial-of-service in flate stream code. · michaelrsweet/pdfio@97d4955 · GitHub MISC github.com
Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file · Advisory · michaelrsweet/pdfio · GitHub MISC github.com
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