CVE-2019-9587: Glyphandcog Xpdfreader

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a stack consumption issue in md5Round1() located in Decrypt.cc in Xpdf 4.01. It can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to Catalog::countPageTree.

Affected products

• Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: version 4.01 only

Published 2019-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.