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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-6544)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 2, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

pdf_load_obj_stm in pdf/pdf-xref.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 could reference the object stream recursively and therefore run out of error stack, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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