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It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.","severity":{"version":"3.0","score":7.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.01202,"percentile":0.68437,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-125"],"published":"2019-03-19T18:16:53Z","modified":"2026-10-20T10:51:43Z","products":[{"vendor":"pdfalto_project","product":"pdfalto"},{"vendor":"xpdfreader","product":"xpdf"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues/46","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-gfxindexedcolorspacemapcolortobase-pdfalto-0-2/","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit","Third Party Advisory","evidence","report"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9878"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xgqh-hv6x-qppm"},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9878","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9878","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2019-9878","description":"There is an invalid memory access in the function GfxIndexedColorSpace::mapColorToBase() located in GfxState.cc in Xpdf 4.0.0, as used in pdfalto 0.2. 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