SB2018052438 - Memory leak in Artifex Software MuPDF
Published: May 24, 2018 Updated: October 17, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018052438
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1000036)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=5502
- 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-15