CVE-2018-25306

medium

Published 2026-04-29 · Modified 2026-05-05

CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

PDFunite 0.41.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malformed PDF files during merge operations. Attackers can trigger a segmentation fault in the XRef::getEntry function within libpoppler by providing a specially crafted PDF file to the pdfunite utility.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
canonical	pdfunite	`0.41.0`

References

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/0.57.0-2ubuntu4.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+package/poppler-utils
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44490
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pdfunite-buffer-overflow-via-malformed-pdf

CWEs

CWE-120

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.