Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36041

Division by zero in xpdf - CVE-2019-10020

Published: March 25, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36041

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10020

CWE-ID: CWE-369

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Glyph & Cog

Affected software:
xpdf

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in Xpdf 4.01.01. There is an FPE in the function Splash::scaleImageYuXu at Splash.cc for x Bresenham parameters.

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