CVE-2013-1788

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger an "invalid memory access" in (1) splash/Splash.cc, (2) poppler/Function.cc, and (3) poppler/Stream.cc.

Affected products

poppler: through 0.22.0

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=0388837f01bc467045164f9ddaff787000a8caaa
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=8b6dc55e530b2f5ede6b9dfb64aafdd1d5836492
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=957aa252912cde85d76c41e9710b33425a82b696
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=bbc2d8918fe234b7ef2c480eb148943922cc0959
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=e14b6e9c13d35c9bd1e0c50906ace8e707816888
http://j00ru.vexillium.org/?p=1507
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100081.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-March/100090.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52846
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1785-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2719
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:143

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