High severity · published Mar 6, 2019
CVE-2019-9588
There is an Invalid memory access in gAtomicIncrement() located at GMutex.h in Xpdf 4.01
7.8
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
There is an Invalid memory access in gAtomicIncrement() located at GMutex.h in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdftops binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 68% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XP
Xpdfreader · Glyphandcog
4.01 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9588
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9588
Exploit
https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41261
Exploit
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-gatomiccounter-gatomicincrement-xpdf-4-01/
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