vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2019-12360: xpdf: buffer over-read via crafted PDF document leads to DoS or memory leak

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 27, 2019
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

A stack-based buffer over-read exists in FoFiTrueType::dumpString in fofi/FoFiTrueType.cc in Xpdf 4.01.01. It can, for example, be triggered by sending crafted TrueType data in a PDF document to the pdftops tool. It might allow an attacker to cause Denial of Service or leak memory data into dump content.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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