CVE-2023-28428 PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file
Attackers can cause a denial of service by providing a crafted PDF file to applications using the PDFio library, leading to infinite loops and high CPU usage.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-28428?
CVE-2023-28428 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in michaelrsweet pdfio, published on 20 Mar 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28428?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pdfio Project Pdfio.
How do I fix CVE-2023-28428?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2023-28428 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28428 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in michaelrsweet pdfio
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28428, GHSA-68x8-9phf-j7jf, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28428.