CVE-2019-5019 Memory corruption in Antenna House
Heap-based buffer overflow in Rainbow PDF Office Server allows remote code execution via malicious PowerPoint files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-5019?
CVE-2019-5019 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Antenna House, published on 7 Mar 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A heap-based overflow vulnerability exists in the PowerPoint document conversion function of Rainbow PDF Office Server Document Converter V7.0 Pro R1 (7,0,2018,1113). While parsing Document Summary Property Set stream, the getSummaryInformation function is incorrectly checking the correlation between size and the number of properties in PropertySet packets, causing an out-of-bounds write that leads to heap corruption and consequent code execution.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5019?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Rainbowpdf Office Server Document Converter.
How do I fix CVE-2019-5019?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5019 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2019-5019 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5019 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qccm-cx69-c285.