Security advisory

{
  "id": "b909d44abec139d90af05d8a4783fcd8ac256efc110fcd410355aaa7769134fe",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17338",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-17338",
    "summary": "An issue has been found in pdfalto through 0.2. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in the function TextPage::dump in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-17338",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-17338",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-17338"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "dea10fda1261a5849da04f727d53e27406be8e97"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pdfalto_project:pdfalto:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.2",
            "0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17338.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:04.325375954Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/grandnew/software-vulnerabilities/tree/master/pdfalto#heap-buffer-overflow-in-function-textpagedump",
        "https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues/29"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-17338",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381238,
  "published_at": "2018-09-23T05:29:00.25+00:00"
}