CVE-2009-3604

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Splash::drawImage function in Splash.cc in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in GPdf and kdegraphics KPDF, does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a NULL pointer dereference or a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Foolabs Xpdf: 3.02pl1, 3.02pl2, 3.02pl3
Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: 2.00, 2.01, 2.02, 2.03, 3.00, 3.01 (+1)
Poppler: 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1 (+49)

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb2
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/?id=284a928996&id2=75c3466ba2
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://secunia.com/advisories/37023
http://secunia.com/advisories/37028
http://secunia.com/advisories/37037
http://secunia.com/advisories/37042
http://secunia.com/advisories/37043

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