Advisories » MGASA-2020-0291

Updated xpdf packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 10 Jul 2020
Modification date: 22 Sep 2021
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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26920
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/IQBAHQQF2P7E6PL5STST3TGH7VPVXKKQ/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12360

SRPMS

7/core

• xpdf-4.02-1.2.mga7