{"id":78201,"date":"2026-02-28T00:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-28351-manipulated-runlengthdecode-streams-can-exhaust-ram\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T00:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:16:19","slug":"cve-2026-28351-manipulated-runlengthdecode-streams-can-exhaust-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-28351-manipulated-runlengthdecode-streams-can-exhaust-ram\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-28351 &#8211; Manipulated RunLengthDecode streams can exhaust RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-28351<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 27, 2026, 9:16 p.m. | 19\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.7.4, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the content stream using the RunLengthDecode filter. This has been fixed in pypdf 6.7.4. As a workaround, consider applying the changes from PR #3664.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 6.9 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-28351 Published : Feb. 27, 2026, 9:16 p.m. | 19\u00a0minutes ago Description : pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.7.4, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory usage. This requires parsing the content stream using the RunLengthDecode filter. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}