CVE-2019-9199

HIGH

PoDoFo 0.9.6 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in PdfTranslator

Title source: llm

Description

PoDoFo::Impose::PdfTranslator::setSource() in pdftranslator.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6 has a NULL pointer dereference that can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to the podofoimpose binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

References (6)

Core 6

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NTJ5AAM6Y4NMSELEH7N5ZG4DNO56BCYF/

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CIC2EXSSMBT3MY2HY42IIY4BUQS2SVYB/

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/null-pointer-dereference-vulnerability-in-setsource-podofo-0-9-6-trunk-r1967/

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/40/

Patch

https://github.com/jjanku/podofo/commit/ada821df68fb0bf673840ed525daf4ec709dbfd9

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Patch

https://github.com/mksdev/podofo/commit/1400a9aaf611299b9a56aa2abeb158918b9743c8

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0255

EPSS Percentile 83.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-476

Status published

Products (3)

fedoraproject/fedora 29

fedoraproject/fedora 30

podofo_project/podofo 0.9.6

Published Feb 26, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026