6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-3938

Published: 13/11/2009 Updated: 17/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in the ABWOutputDev::endWord function in poppler/ABWOutputDev.cc in Poppler (aka libpoppler) 0.10.6, 0.12.0, and possibly other versions, as used by the Abiword pdftoabw utility, allows user-assisted remote malicious users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file.

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poppler poppler 0.12.0

poppler poppler 0.10.6

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #534680 libpoppler4: buffer overflow in the Abiword backend Package: poppler; Maintainer for poppler is Debian freedesktoporg maintainers <pkg-freedesktop-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Jakub Wilk <ubanus@userssfnet> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:24:13 UTC Severity: importa ...
Several integer overflows, buffer overflows and memory allocation errors were discovered in the Poppler PDF rendering library, which may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a user is tricked into opening a malformed PDF document An update for the old stable distribution (etch) will be issued soon as version 045-51etc ...