Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-25725
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 2 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25725
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-25725
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41915
- https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41915
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ZUU5QG6SSVRTKZTR3A72LDRVZETEI63/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ZUU5QG6SSVRTKZTR3A72LDRVZETEI63/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLOYVJSM54IL6I5RY4QTJGRS7PIEG44X/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLOYVJSM54IL6I5RY4QTJGRS7PIEG44X/