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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2019-5030

High
8.8/10

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the PowerPoint document conversion function of Rainbow PDF Office Server Document Converter V7.0 Pro MR1 (7,0,2019,0220). While parsing a document text info container, the TxMasterStyleAtom::parse function is incorrectly checking the bounds corresponding to the number of style levels, causing a vtable pointer to be overwritten, which leads to code execution.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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