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Use After Free

CVE-2020-19474

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

An issue has been found in function Gfx::doShowText in PDF2JSON 0.70 that allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service due to an Use After Free .

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published