CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-20816

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 04, 2020 | Modified: Feb 03, 2021

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20816
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

An issue was discovered in Foxit PhantomPDF before 8.3.12. It has a NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of file data.

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
Phantompdf	Foxitsoftware	*	8.3.12 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php

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