CVE-2009-3606

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 PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep function in Xpdf before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in kdegraphics KPDF, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Foolabs Xpdf: 3.02pl1, 3.02pl2, 3.02pl3
Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: 3.00, 3.01, 3.02
Poppler: 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1 (+46)

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/poppler/PSOutputDev.cc?id=7b2d314a61
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/37037
http://secunia.com/advisories/37042
http://secunia.com/advisories/37043
http://secunia.com/advisories/37053
http://secunia.com/advisories/37077

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