Security Advisory

CVE-2019-9959

6.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.
Published Date July 22, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory