CVE-2019-9878

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read8 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.3%
top 45.66%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Pdfalto Project PdfaltoXpdfreader Xpdf
Timeline
PublishedMar 21
Latest updateMay 13

Description

There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() located in GfxState.cc in Xpdf 4.0.0, as used in pdfalto 0.2. It can be triggered by (for example) 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 Packages3 packages

▶NVDxpdfreader/xpdf4.0.0
▶Ubuntupoppler< 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.13+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-xgqh-hv6x-qppm: There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() located in GfxState↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2019-9878: There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() located in GfxState↗2019-03-21
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CVEList
CVE-2019-9878: There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() located in GfxState↗2019-03-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2019-9878: xpdf - There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColor...↗2019
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9877 CVE-2019-9878 xpdf: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2019-03-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-9878 xpdf: invalid memmory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() in GfxState.cc leads to dos↗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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CVE-2019-9878 (HIGH CVSS 7.8) | There is an invalid memory access i | cvebase.io