CVE-2009-0146

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, and other products allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file, related to (1) JBIG2SymbolDict::setBitmap and (2) JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg.

Affected products

cups: through 1.3.9; 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 (+65)
Foolabs Xpdf: 0.5a, 0.7a, 0.91a, 0.91b, 0.91c, 0.92a (+8)
Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: through 3.02; 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 (+13)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263028
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00011.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0458.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34291
http://secunia.com/advisories/34481
http://secunia.com/advisories/34755
http://secunia.com/advisories/34756
http://secunia.com/advisories/34852

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