CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-15860

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 03, 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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15860
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

Xpdf 2.00 allows a SIGSEGV in XRef::constructXRef in XRef.cc. NOTE: 2.00 is a version from November 2002.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Xpdfreader	Glyphandcog	2.00 (including)	2.00 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://gist.github.com/RootUp/b5de893bb2e51a4c846c5a0caa13b666

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