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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2023-28428 EUVD-2023-32122

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

Published Mar 20, 2023 · Updated Feb 25, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
michaelrsweet pdfio <= 1.1.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ippsample 0.0~git20220215.f365352-1 —
Debian 12 ippsample 0.0~git20220215.f365352-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —

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