Medium
Security advisory
Artifex MuPDF before 1.18.0 has a heap based buffer over-write in tiff_expand_colormap() function when parsing TIFF files allowing attackers to cause a denial of service.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-19609
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Artifex MuPDF before 1.18.0 has a heap based buffer over-write in tiff_expand_colormap() function when parsing TIFF files allowing attackers to cause a denial of service.
osv:CVE-2020-19609
Complete source record
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