CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-9877

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-03-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-03-21
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-125, CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• xpdfreader xpdf 4.0.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References