CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-13288

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Jul 04, 2019 | Modified: Aug 24, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

In Xpdf 4.01.01, the Parser::getObj() function in Parser.cc may cause infinite recursion via a crafted file. A remote attacker can leverage this for a DoS attack. This is similar to CVE-2018-16646.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xpdfreader Glyphandcog 4.01.01 (including) 4.01.01 (including)
Ipe Ubuntu cosmic *
Libextractor Ubuntu cosmic *
Xpdf Ubuntu cosmic *
Xpdf Ubuntu disco *
Xpdf Ubuntu eoan *
Xpdf Ubuntu hirsute *
Xpdf Ubuntu impish *
Xpdf Ubuntu trusty *
Xpdf Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References