Security advisory

{
  "id": "c6a70c7e7d8e16d78a16e2af59318635ec3d06870f203376fd5bb29a624ceb42",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9878",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-9878",
    "summary": "There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() located in GfxState.cc in Xpdf 4.0.0, as used in pdfalto 0.2. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftops binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-9878",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-9878",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-9878"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "dea10fda1261a5849da04f727d53e27406be8e97"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "dea10fda1261a5849da04f727d53e27406be8e97"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pdfalto_project:pdfalto:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0.2"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.2"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-9878.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:43.967424035Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues/46",
        "https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-gfxindexedcolorspacemapcolortobase-pdfalto-0-2/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:xpdfreader:xpdf:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "xpdfreader:xpdf",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "4.0.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "4.0.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-9878",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382832,
  "published_at": "2019-03-21T16:01:17.593+00:00"
}