CVE-2019-9877

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write9 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.3%
top 46.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Xpdfreader Xpdf
Timeline
PublishedMar 21
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDxpdfreader/xpdf4.0.1
▶Ubuntupoppler< 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.13+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-3pv6-grgx-9mv9: There is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGaps() located at TextOutputDev↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2019-9877: There is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGaps() located at TextOutputDev↗2019-03-21
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CVEList
CVE-2019-9877: There is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGaps() located at TextOutputDev↗2019-03-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2019-9877: xpdf - There is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGa...↗2019
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-16927 xpdf: out-of-bounds write in the vertProfile part of the TextPage::findGaps function in TextOutputDev.cc↗2019-12-02
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9877 CVE-2019-9878 xpdf: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2019-03-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9877 xpdf: invalid memory access in function TextPage::findGaps() in TextOutputDev.c leads to sdos↗2019-03-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9877 CVE-2019-9878 xpdf: various flaws [epel-all]↗2019-03-22
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