CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-16088

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Sep 06, 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

Xpdf 3.04 has a SIGSEGV in XRef::fetch in XRef.cc after many recursive calls to Catalog::countPageTree in Catalog.cc.

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 3.04 (including) 3.04 (including)
Ipe Ubuntu bionic *
Ipe Ubuntu disco *
Ipe Ubuntu eoan *
Ipe Ubuntu groovy *
Ipe Ubuntu hirsute *
Ipe Ubuntu impish *
Ipe Ubuntu kinetic *
Ipe Ubuntu lunar *
Ipe Ubuntu mantic *
Ipe Ubuntu trusty *
Ipe Ubuntu xenial *
Poppler Ubuntu trusty *
Xpdf Ubuntu disco *
Xpdf Ubuntu eoan *
Xpdf Ubuntu hirsute *
Xpdf Ubuntu impish *
Xpdf Ubuntu trusty *
Xpdf Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References