CVE-2020-25725 Information

Description

In Xpdf 4.02 SplashOutputDev::endType3Char(GfxState state) SplashOutputDev.cc:3079 is trying to use the freed t3GlyphStack->cache which causes an heap-use-after-free problem. The codes of a previous fix for nested Type 3 characters wasn’t correctly handling the case where a Type 3 char referred to another char in the same Type 3 font.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25725 https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41915 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ZUU5QG6SSVRTKZTR3A72LDRVZETEI63/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLOYVJSM54IL6I5RY4QTJGRS7PIEG44X/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5