CVE-2018-7173 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in xpdf 4.00, specifically within the JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function, which can be triggered by a specially crafted file causing an inappropriate decoding loop. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, leading to high availability impact (A:H) but no confidentiality or integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.00CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.