VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-9878

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-03-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references