CVE-2019-9877 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2019-9877 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.30% · 53.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.30%

53.0th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	poppler	0, 0.33.0-0ubuntu3, 0.37.0-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	poppler	0, 0.57.0-2ubuntu4, 0.57.0-2ubuntu5

Timeline

Mar 19, 2019 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9877 third-party-advisory
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41265 third-party-advisory
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-textpagefindgaps-xpdf-4-01/ third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9877 third-party-advisory

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