CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-20829

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jun 04, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024

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

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20829
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.6. It has a NULL pointer dereference via FXSYS_wcslen in an Epub file.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Phantompdf	Foxitsoftware	*	9.6 (excluding)
Reader	Foxitsoftware	*	9.6 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References

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