PT-2019-12822
CVE-2019-12493
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Published
2019-05-31
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Updated
2019-09-30
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.1
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Xpdf version 4.01.01
Description
A stack-based buffer over-read issue exists due to the mishandling of tint transform functions by GfxSeparationColorSpace and GfxDeviceNColorSpace in the PostScriptFunction::transform function in Function.cc. This can be triggered by sending a crafted PDF document to the pdftops tool, potentially allowing an attacker to cause Denial of Service or leak memory data.
Recommendations
For Xpdf version 4.01.01, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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