UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9877
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9877, https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41265, https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-textpagefindgaps-xpdf-4-01/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9877
Affected packages
Package
Name: poppler
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -0.41.0-0ubuntu1.13
Affected versions
0.33.0-0ubuntu3
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
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Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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High
