CVE-2019-14934

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in PDFResurrect before 0.18. pdf_load_pages_kids in pdf.c doesn't validate a certain size value, which leads to a malloc failure and out-of-bounds write.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30, 31
PDFResurrect: before 0.18 — fixed in 0.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PDFResurrect 0.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/commit/0c4120fffa3dffe97b95c486a120eded82afe8a6
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/compare/v0.17...v0.18
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00002.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DBYXYU2VSDJ3NAL54IW2KYD3TZSR33M/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXN6W5QTNQJ2LFDCQWKYSMMZ3NPUWP3U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y243C2IFMRFQWHV62JCSHTMQGDDCICNF/
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/commit/0c4120fffa3dffe97b95c486a120eded82afe8a6
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/compare/v0.17...v0.18
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00002.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DBYXYU2VSDJ3NAL54IW2KYD3TZSR33M/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXN6W5QTNQJ2LFDCQWKYSMMZ3NPUWP3U/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y243C2IFMRFQWHV62JCSHTMQGDDCICNF/

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