CVE-2013-1790

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% 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/Stream.cc in poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors that trigger a read of uninitialized memory by the CCITTFaxStream::lookChar function.

Affected products

poppler: through 0.22.0

References

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=b1026b5978c385328f2a15a2185c599a563edf91
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
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=917111
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?h=poppler-0.22&id=b1026b5978c385328f2a15a2185c599a563edf91

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