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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-14946

An issue has been found in PDF2JSON 0.69. The HtmlString class in ImgOutputDev.cc has Mismatched Memory Management Routines (malloc versus operator delete).

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31 Oct 2026, 10:17 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-14946

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Aug 2018, 18:29 UTC

An issue has been found in PDF2JSON 0.69. The HtmlString class in ImgOutputDev.cc has Mismatched Memory Management Routines (malloc versus operator delete).

osv:CVE-2018-14946
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-14946",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "An issue has been found in PDF2JSON 0.69. The HtmlString class in ImgOutputDev.cc has Mismatched Memory Management Routines (malloc versus operator delete).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-14946",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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                },
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:02.603163194Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/flexpaper/pdf2json/issues/19",
        "https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/pdf2json#alloc_dealloc_mismatch-in-function-htmlstring"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381180,
  "published_at": "2018-08-05T18:29:00.553+00:00"
}