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CVE-2019-9959
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2019-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-190
Description
The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
- poppler: through 0.78.0
- 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/109342
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/blob/master/NEWS
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5ZOYOZTGU4RGZW4E63OZ7LW4SMPEWGBV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A6NX2XPMMV7O52F4NBNCHGILGJXM3OJZ/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109342
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/blob/master/NEWS
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00024.html
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