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title: "CVE-2019-10871\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2019-10871

Publication date 5 April 2019

Last updated 28 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

## Cvss 3 Severity Score

**6.5 · Medium**

[Score breakdown](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10871?format=md#impact-score)

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## Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. There is a heap-based buffer
over-read in the function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice at PSOutputDev.cc.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10871?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| poppler | 25.04 plucky | Not affected |
| 24.10 oracular | Not affected |
| 24.04 LTS noble | Not affected |
| 23.10 mantic | Not affected |
| 23.04 lunar | Not affected |
| 22.10 kinetic | Not affected |
| 22.04 LTS jammy | Not affected |
| 21.10 impish | Not affected |
| 21.04 hirsute | Not affected |
| 20.10 groovy | Not affected |
| 20.04 LTS focal | Not affected |
| 19.10 eoan | Ignored end of life |
| 19.04 disco | Ignored end of life |
| 18.10 cosmic | Ignored end of life |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Ignored end of standard support, was needed |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Ignored end of standard support, was needed |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10871?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

this is an invalid read of size 1. Upstream fixed this issue by
enabling SPLASH\_CMYK in poppler.
Enabling SPLASH\_CMYK introduced a regression in xpdf and gdal.
See bug 1905741.

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| poppler | * Upstream:   [2e32545](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/2e32545b1d2e31359775a65ef34e0385c9079126) * Upstream:   [dc77116](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/dc77116d0a27f70eeba4a0a4e8733759cd867f3d) |

## Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:
CVSS v3.0

**Base score**

6.5 · Medium

* Base metrics

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Attack vector | Network |
  | Attack complexity | Low |
  | Privileges required | None |
  | User interaction | Required |
  | Scope | Unchanged |
  | Confidentiality impact | None |
  | Integrity impact | None |
  | Availability impact | High |
* Scores

  | Parameter | Value |
  | --- | --- |
  | Base score | 6.5 · Medium |
  | Exploitability score | - |
  | Impact score | - |

**Vector:** CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-10871)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10871)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2019-10871)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-10871)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-4646-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-4646-1)
+ poppler vulnerabilities
+ 25 November 2020

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10871>