Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package xpdf  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-XPDF-607552
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed6 Mar 2019

Introduced: 6 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9587  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xpdf package and not the xpdf package as distributed by Debian.

There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.