CVE-2023-28428mediumCWE-770

CVE-2023-28428: medium-severity vulnerability in michaelrsweet pdfio

PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.2epss 0.2%
PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
michaelrsweet · pdfio
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