Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-1000036 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple memory leaks in the PDF parser allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (memory leak) via a crafted file.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-201811-15.NASL |
description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201811-15 (MuPDF: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MuPDF. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted file, could possibly execute arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Service condition, or have other unspecified impacts. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 119160 |
published | 2018-11-27 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119160 |
title | GLSA-201811-15 : MuPDF: Multiple vulnerabilities |
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5502
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5502
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698887
- https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698887
- https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=8aa2bd34065d2844aae778bd4cc20c74bbcd9406
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00013.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00013.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15