Medium
Security advisory
In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, svg/svg-run.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (recursive calls followed by a fitz/xml.c fz_xml_att crash from excessive stack consumption) via a crafted svg file, as demonstrated by mupdf-gl.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, svg/svg-run.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (recursive calls followed by a fitz/xml.c fz_xml_att crash from excessive stack consumption) via a crafted svg file, as demonstrated by mupdf-gl.
osv:CVE-2018-19881
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19881",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2018-19881",
"summary": "In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, svg/svg-run.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (recursive calls followed by a fitz/xml.c fz_xml_att crash from excessive stack consumption) via a crafted svg file, as demonstrated by mupdf-gl.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-19881",
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"severity": "medium",
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:41.886242446Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700342",
"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700442",
"https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=c8f7e48ff74720a5e984ae19d978a5ab4d5dde5b",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CNJNEX5EW6YH5OARXXSSXW4HHC5PIBSY/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SEK2EHVNREJ7XZMFF2MXRWKIF4IBHPNE/",
"https://github.com/TeamSeri0us/pocs/tree/master/mupdf/20181203"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 435228,
"published_at": "2018-12-06T00:29:00.237+00:00"
}