CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-9587
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.
Affected configurations
• glyphandcog xpdfreader 4.01
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory