CVE-2019-13290

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-07-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Artifex MuPDF 1.15.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in fz_append_display_node located at fitz/list-device.c, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. This occurs with a large BDC property name that overflows the allocated size of a display list node.

Affected products

Artifex MuPDF: 1.15.0

References

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=aaf794439e40a2ef544f15b50c20e657414dec7a
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=ed19bc806809ad10c4ddce515d375581b86ede85
https://archive.today/oi6bm
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701118
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00019.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUXKCY35PKC32IFHN4RBUCZ75OWEYVJH/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4753
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=aaf794439e40a2ef544f15b50c20e657414dec7a
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Bh=ed19bc806809ad10c4ddce515d375581b86ede85
https://archive.today/oi6bm
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701118
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00019.html

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