CVE-2019-9877: Xpdfreader Xpdf

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

There is an invalid memory access vulnerability in the function TextPage::findGaps() located at TextOutputDev.c in Xpdf 4.01, which can (for example) be triggered by 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.

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Published 2019-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.