{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2018-25306","details":"PDFunite 0.41.0 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by processing malformed PDF files during merge operations. Attackers can trigger a segmentation fault in the XRef::getEntry function within libpoppler by providing a specially crafted PDF file to the pdfunite 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