CVE-2019-9878

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9878
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-9878.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-9878
Downstream
Published
2019-03-21T16:01:17.593Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:55:12.509966130Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "xpdfreader:xpdf",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "4.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.0.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto
Events
Database specific
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pdfalto_project:pdfalto:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-9878.json"