CVE-2019-9903

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.74.0 - Stack Consumption via Crafted PDF File

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0073
EPSS Percentile 72.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (20)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
debian/debian_linux 10.0
fedoraproject/fedora 28
fedoraproject/fedora 29
fedoraproject/fedora 30
freedesktop/poppler 0.74.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
... and 10 more
Published Mar 21, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026