CVE-2019-12515

Summary

CVECVE-2019-12515
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-06-02 00:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the function FlateStream::getChar() located at Stream.cc in Xpdf 4.01.01. It can, for example, be triggered by sending a crafted PDF document to the pdftoppm tool. It might allow an attacker to cause Information Disclosure or a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 4.01.01 All All All
Application Glyphandcog Xpdfreader 4.01.01 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: xpdf-4.02-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
pocs/xpdf/out-of-bounds-read-in-FlateStream__getChar at master · PanguL4b/pocs · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: xpdf-4.02-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: xpdf-4.02-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: xpdf-4.02-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: xpdf-4.02-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: xpdf-4.02-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
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