PT-2019-13051 · None · Xpdf

Published 2019-06-24 · Updated 2019-10-25 · CVE-2019-12958

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Xpdf version 4.01.01

Description A heap-based buffer over-read issue exists in the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function, located in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc. This occurs when the function attempts to access the second privateDicts array element, despite the privateDicts array having only one allocated element.

Recommendations For Xpdf version 4.01.01, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-12958

Affected Products

Xpdf

References · 9

• 🔥 https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41815 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12958 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12958 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DJJD7X3ES7ZHJUY2R3DAVCJPV23R64VK · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12958 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TNIJWRYTCLGV35WGIHYTMMOPEEOOTIPT · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FWEWFUVITPA3Y6F4A5SJSROKYT7PRH7Q · Vendor Advisory