CVE-2010-3703

poppler - Denial of Service via Uninitialized Pointer Dereference in PostScriptFunction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The PostScriptFunction::PostScriptFunction function in poppler/Function.cc in the PDF parser in poppler 0.8.7 and possibly other versions up to 0.15.1, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers an uninitialized pointer dereference.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/04/6
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049392.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0859.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/42357
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639356
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:231
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049523.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1005-1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/049545.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0256
EPSS Percentile 83.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (35)
poppler/poppler 0.8.7
poppler/poppler 0.9.0
poppler/poppler 0.9.1
poppler/poppler 0.9.2
poppler/poppler 0.9.3
poppler/poppler 0.10.0
poppler/poppler 0.10.1
poppler/poppler 0.10.2
poppler/poppler 0.10.3
poppler/poppler 0.10.4
... and 25 more
Published Nov 05, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026