CVE-2019-9587

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-03-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.

Affected products

Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: 4.01

References

https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41263
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-function-md5round1-xpdf-4-01/

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