UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9587

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9587

    Published: 6 Mar 2019Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-9587

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9587, https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263, https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9587

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: texlive-bin

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/texlive-bin?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2015.20150524.37493-5build1
    2015.20150524.37493-7
    2015.20150524.37493-7build1
    2015.20150524.37493-7build4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High