Vigil@nce - Xpdf: out-of-bounds memory reading via JBIG2Stream-readTextRegionSeg
December 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 28/10/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
JBIG2Stream::readTextRegionSeg() of Xpdf, in order to trigger a
denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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