CVE-2019-16088 Denial of service in n/a
A stack overflow in Xpdf causes a segmentation fault, allowing attackers to crash applications processing malicious PDF files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-16088?
CVE-2019-16088 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Glyphandcog Xpdfreader, published on 6 Sep 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Xpdf 3.04 has a SIGSEGV in XRef::fetch in XRef.cc after many recursive calls to Catalog::countPageTree in Catalog.cc.
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-16088?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Glyphandcog Xpdfreader.
How do I fix CVE-2019-16088?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-16088 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-16088 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-16088 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Glyphandcog Xpdfreader
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2j59-jx2x-g8vw, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16088.