CVE-2009-0756

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers a parsing error, which is not properly handled by JBIG2SymbolDict::~JBIG2SymbolDict and triggers an invalid memory dereference.

Affected products

Poppler: through 0.10.3; 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1 (+27)

References

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-January/004403.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33853
http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0059
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/19/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502761/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33749
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-January/004403.html

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