CVE-2019-9200

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-02-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A heap-based buffer underwrite exists in ImageStream::getLine() located at Stream.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 that can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux: 8.0
poppler: 0.74.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107172
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2022
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/728
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00008.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OSCOYM3AMFFBJWSBWY6VJVLNE5JD7YS/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZWP5XSUG6GNRI75NYKF53KIB2CZY6QQ6/
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/heap-based-buffer-underwrite-in-imagestreamgetline-poppler-0-74-0/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3905-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/

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