CVE-2019-9877

Summary

CVECVE-2019-9877
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-21 16:01:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGaps() located at TextOutputDev.c in Xpdf 4.01, which can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftops binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125 | CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Xpdfreader Xpdf 4.0.1 All All All
Application Xpdfreader Xpdf 4.0.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
invalid memory access in TextPage::findGaps() – xpdf-4.01 - forum.xpdfreader.com MISC forum.xpdfreader.com Vendor Advisory
CVE-2019-9877: Invalid memory access in TextPage::findGaps() - xpdf-4.01 - Loginsoft Research MISC research.loginsoft.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690709 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for xpdf (791e8f79-e7d1-11e9-8b31-206a8a720317)
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