Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-28428

Description

PDFio is a C library for reading and writing PDF files. In versions 1.1.0 and prior, a denial of service vulnerability exists in the pdfio parser. Crafted pdf files can cause the program to run at 100% utilization and never terminate. This is different from CVE-2023-24808. A patch for this issue is available in version 1.1.1.

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Affected products

michaelrsweet/pdfiollm-create
Range: <=1.1.0
PDFio/PDFiollm-fuzzy
Range: <=1.1.0
michaelrsweet/pdfiov5
Range: <= 1.1.0

Patches

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References

github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/commit/97d4955666779dc5b0665e15dd951a5c12426a31nvdPatch
github.com/michaelrsweet/pdfio/security/advisories/GHSA-68x8-9phf-j7jfnvdVendor Advisory

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