CVE-2009-1605

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadexponentialfunc function in mupdf/pdf_function.c in MuPDF in the mupdf-20090223-win32 package, as used in SumatraPDF 0.9.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

sumatrapdfreader sumatrapdf: through 0.9.3; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+6)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-04/0258.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34916
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1185
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1186
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690555
https://cgit.ghostscript.com/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/mupdf.git/commit/?id=451373e028f82fa2f1cc2a6a669df31d85c877bd
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-04/0258.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34916
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1185
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1186

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