Division by zero in xpdf - CVE-2019-10020
Published: March 25, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36041
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10020
CWE-ID: CWE-369
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
xpdf
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10020
Install update from vendor's website.