Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in Aspose PDF API
Summary: Cisco Talos discovered multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Aspose.PDF API, which processes and converts PDFs, and worked with Aspose under its coordinated disclosure policy to get an update released. Talos confirmed the flaws affect Aspose.PDF version 19.2, including a use-after-free in FunctionType 0 elements (CVE-2019-5042), a use-after-free in LZW compressed streams (CVE-2019-5066), and an uninitialized memory access involving invalid parent object pointers (CVE-2019-5067), all triggered by a crafted PDF opened through the corresponding API.
What you should know: These bugs sit in a document-conversion API, so the attack path runs through a malicious PDF a user is merely asked to open - and Talos confirmed version 19.2 is affected, meaning any service still running it is exposed until patched.
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- Topics
- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Mentions
- CVE-2019-5042CVE-2019-5066CVE-2019-5067
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