PT-2019-19797 · Podofo+1 · Podofo+1

Mabri · Published 2019-03-11 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2019-9687

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PoDoFo version 0.9.6

Description The issue is a heap-based buffer overflow in the PdfString::ConvertUTF16toUTF8 function located in base/PdfString.cpp.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.6, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-1684

ALT-PU-2022-3234

CVE-2019-9687

MGASA-2020-0294

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

References · 53

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2020-0294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/SSB4HRLHF7H3DPNTFPTXUE6EGXXZ5JSZ · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/WR6XY3TOLJPLXOGHYPCB42JW3SWRZNY4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/code/1969 · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-9687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CIC2EXSSMBT3MY2HY42IIY4BUQS2SVYB · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9687 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/Y6ZKYPW55PN6XV5XW6KZDIJLWRXON74N · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9687 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9687 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/4K6FST3UH3WNUNCIAEEGZJJASCP5ZXUF · Vendor Advisory