CVE-2019-9543

HIGH

Poppler 0.74.0 - Denial of Service via Recursive Function Call in JBIG2Stream

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered 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 attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to JArithmeticDecoder::decodeBit.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107238
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/730

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0331
EPSS Percentile 86.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (1)
freedesktop/poppler 0.74.0
Published Mar 01, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026