CVE-2020-24996

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24996
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-24996.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-24996
Downstream
Published
2020-09-03T23:15:09.760Z
Modified
2026-03-14T10:22:06.060720Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/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 TextString::~TextString() located in Catalog.cc in Xpdf 4.0.2. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftohtml binary, which allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

References

Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-24996.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.0.2"
            }
        ]
    }
]