CVE-2019-9903

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
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: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
Debian Linux: 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 28, 29, 30
poppler: 0.74.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
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/XGYLZZ4DZUDBQEGCNDWSZPSFNNZJF4S6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWWVIYFXM74KJFIDHP4W67HR4FRF2LDE/
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741

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