8.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2019-9545

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::readTextRegion() located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an malicious user to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to JBIG2Bitmap::clearToZero.

Vulnerability Trend

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freedesktop poppler 0.74.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #923552 poppler: CVE-2019-9545: Recursive function call at function JBIG2Stream::readTextRegion() 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: 1685966: CVE-2019-9545 poppler: recursi ...