CVE-2018-25306 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-25306

PDFunite 0.41.0 Buffer Overflow via Malformed PDF

Vulnerability Description

PDFunite 0.41.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malformed PDF files during merge operations. Attackers can trigger a segmentation fault in the XRef::getEntry function within libpoppler by providing a specially crafted PDF file to the pdfunite utility.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Hamm3r.py

Affected Vendor

poppler-utils

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Affected Software

PDFunite
Vulnerable Versions:
0.41.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 29th, 2026
Last Modified: April 30th, 2026
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)