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Bug 698618 (CVE-2019-16927)

Summary: <app-text/xpdf-4.02: out-of-bounds write in the vertProfile part of the TextPage::findGaps function in TextOutputDev.cc (CVE-2019-16927)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot <glsamaker>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: trivial CC: bircoph
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: ~2 [noglsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2019-10-27 00:47:45 UTC
CVE-2019-16927 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16927):
  Xpdf 4.01.01 has an out-of-bounds write in the vertProfile part of the
  TextPage::findGaps function in TextOutputDev.cc, a different vulnerability
  than CVE-2019-9877.
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-10-27 00:49:34 UTC
Package has no stable ebuild.

@ maintainer(s): Please cleanup and drop =app-text/xpdf-4.01.01!
Comment 2 Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev 2019-10-27 09:37:08 UTC
Done, commit 4200b42667589b1f425801d9128935b2a9b98134.
Comment 3 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-10-27 14:41:57 UTC
Repository is clean, all done!