CVE-2019-13283: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Xpdf 4.01.01, a heap-based buffer over-read could be triggered in strncpy from FoFiType1::parse in fofi/FoFiType1.cc because it does not ensure the source string has a valid length before making a fixed-length copy. It can, for example, be triggered by sending a crafted PDF document to the pdftotext tool. It allows an attacker to use a crafted pdf file to cause Denial of Service or an information leak, or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only; version 31 only
• Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: version 4.01.01 only

Published 2019-07-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.