Advisories ยป MGASA-2020-0291

Updated xpdf packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jul 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-12360

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. (CVE-2019-12360)
                

References

SRPMS

7/core