CVE-2019-9587

There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01

published March 6, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01313 · 70.5th percentile
Published
2019-03-06T08:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAR 08:00Z
    There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01
    cvelistv5