Medium
Security advisory
In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple use of uninitialized value bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or influence program flow via a crafted file.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000040
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 and earlier, multiple use of uninitialized value bugs in the PDF parser could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) or influence program flow via a crafted file.
osv:CVE-2018-1000040
Complete source record
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