Security Advisory

CVE-2019-9877

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

There is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGaps() located at TextOutputDev.c in Xpdf 4.01, which can (for example) be triggered by 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.
Published Date March 21, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory