Denial of Service Vulnerability in xpdf 4.00 via JPXStream::inverseTransformLevel Function

CVE-2018-8101 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The JPXStream::inverseTransformLevel function in JPXStream.cc in xpdf 4.00 allows attackers to launch denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a specific pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftohtml.

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