CVE-2019-16927

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16927

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16927.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201910-10

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`4.02-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

References

https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201910-10
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16927.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16927

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.