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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 22, 2019· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2019-9959

CVE-2019-9959

Description

The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

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