cve-2019-9877
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-19 18:16
Modified
2024-08-04 22:01
Severity ?
Summary
There 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41265Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-textpagefindgaps-xpdf-4-01/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41265Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-textpagefindgaps-xpdf-4-01/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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