Vulnerability · Published Mar 20, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2023-28428PDFio vulnerable to Denial Of Service when opening a corrupt PDF file
Medium 6.2
In plain English
A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in pdfio from michaelrsweet. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | ippsample | 0.0~git20220215.f365352-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28428 |
| Debian:14 | ippsample | 0.0~git20220215.f365352-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2023-28428 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | ippsample | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28428 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | ippsample | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28428 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | ippsample | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28428 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | ippsample | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28428 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | ippsample | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2023-28428 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| michaelrsweet | pdfio | <= 1.1.0 |
Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H