High
Security advisory
A issue was found in pdfalto 0.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the TextPage::addAttributsNode function in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-18274
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A issue was found in pdfalto 0.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the TextPage::addAttributsNode function in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.
osv:CVE-2018-18274
Complete source record
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