Out-of-bounds read in xpdf - CVE-2019-13287

 

Out-of-bounds read in xpdf - CVE-2019-13287

Published: July 29, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19537
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13287
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the function SplashXPath::strokeAdjust() in splash/SplashXPath.cc. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.


Affected software

xpdf
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
openSUSE Leap
typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo
libpoppler60
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo
libpoppler-qt4-4
libpoppler-glib8
libpoppler60-debuginfo
poppler-tools
poppler-tools-debuginfo
libpoppler-devel
libpoppler-glib-devel
libpoppler-qt4-devel
libpoppler-cpp0
poppler-debugsource
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo
libpoppler73
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo
libpoppler73-32bit
libpoppler73-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2019-13287

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

typelib-1_0-Poppler-0_18 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-qt4-4-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler60 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-glib8-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-qt4-4 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-glib8 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler60-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
poppler-tools - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
poppler-tools-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-glib-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-qt4-devel - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-cpp0 - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
poppler-debugsource - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler-cpp0-debuginfo - update to 0.43.0-16.40.1
libpoppler73 - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2
libpoppler73-32bit-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2
libpoppler73-32bit - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2
libpoppler73-debuginfo - update to 0.62.0-150000.4.28.2

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