CVE-2013-4473

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a source filename.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.10
poppler: through 0.24.1; 0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1 (+113)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/723124
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/utils/pdfseparate.cc?id=b8682d868ddf7f741e93b
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/NEWS
http://secunia.com/advisories/56567
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/29/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63368
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434
http://bugs.debian.org/723124
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/utils/pdfseparate.cc?id=b8682d868ddf7f741e93b
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/NEWS

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