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FKIE_CVE-2020-19609

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-07-21 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:59
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Artifex MuPDF before 1.18.0 has a heap based buffer over-write in tiff_expand_colormap() function when parsing TIFF files allowing attackers to cause a denial of service.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=b7892cdc7fae62aa57d63ae62144e1f11b5f9275
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701176Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703076Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00013.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=b7892cdc7fae62aa57d63ae62144e1f11b5f9275
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701176Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703076Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00013.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
artifex mupdf *
debian debian_linux 9.0
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