CVE-2013-1789

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

splash/Splash.cc in poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to the (1) Splash::arbitraryTransformMask, (2) Splash::blitMask, and (3) Splash::scaleMaskYuXu functions.

Affected products

poppler: through 0.22.0

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a205e71a2dbe0c8d4f4905a76a3f79ec522eacec
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a9b8ab4657dec65b8b86c225d12c533ad7e984e2
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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/28/8
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917109
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a205e71a2dbe0c8d4f4905a76a3f79ec522eacec
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=a9b8ab4657dec65b8b86c225d12c533ad7e984e2

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