CVE-2009-3603

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1188.

Affected products

Foolabs Xpdf: 3.02pl1, 3.02pl2, 3.02pl3
Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: 3.00, 3.01, 3.02
Poppler: through 0.12.0; 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1 (+45)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035340.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035399.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035408.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
http://secunia.com/advisories/37034
http://secunia.com/advisories/37053
http://secunia.com/advisories/37054
http://secunia.com/advisories/37114
http://secunia.com/advisories/37159
http://secunia.com/advisories/39327

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