CVE-2018-8001

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in UnescapeName() in PdfName.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service or possibly unspecified other impact via a crafted pdf file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8001

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-8001.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.9.6-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.6+dfsg-3
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.6+dfsg-3
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.6+dfsg-3
debian debiansidfixed0.9.6+dfsg-3
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.6+dfsg-3

References

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