Security Advisory

CVE-2020-24996

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-03 22:17:33
Last updated 2024-08-04 15:26:09
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

There is an invalid memory access in the function TextString::~TextString() located in Catalog.cc in Xpdf 4.0.2. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftohtml binary, which allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.