8.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-9543

Published: 01/03/2019 Updated: 21/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in Poppler 0.74.0. A recursive function call, in JBIG2Stream::readGenericBitmap() located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfseparate binary. It allows an malicious user to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to JArithmeticDecoder::decodeBit.

Vulnerability Trend

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freedesktop poppler 0.74.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #923553 poppler: CVE-2019-9543: recursive function call in function JBIG2Stream::readGenericBitmap() Package: src:poppler; Maintainer for src:poppler is Debian freedesktoporg maintainers <pkg-freedesktop-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> ...
Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-02-28 CWE: CWE-835 Bugzilla: 1685971: CVE-2019-9543 poppler: recursi ...