Division by zero in xpdf - CVE-2019-10025

 

Division by zero in xpdf - CVE-2019-10025

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36046
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-2019-10025
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 ImageStream::ImageStream at Stream.cc for nBits.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-10025

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources