poppler/evince: DoS via crafted PDF file
Published Mar 3, 2009
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 10.09%
Description
The JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers a parsing error, which is not properly handled by JBIG2SymbolDict::~JBIG2SymbolDict and triggers an invalid memory dereference.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 0.10.3
- 0.1
- 0.1.1
- 0.1.2
- 0.2.0
- 0.3.0
- 0.3.1
- 0.3.2
- 0.3.3
- 0.4.0
- 0.4.1
- 0.4.2
- 0.4.3
- 0.4.4
- 0.5.0
- 0.5.1
- 0.5.2
- 0.5.3
- 0.5.4
- 0.5.9
- 0.5.90
- 0.5.91
- 0.6.0
- 0.6.1
- 0.6.2
- 0.6.3
- 0.6.4
- 0.7.0
- 0.7.1
- 0.7.2
- 0.7.3
- 0.8.4
- 0.10.1
- 0.10.2
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
This issue is a duplicate of CVE-2009-0166, which was addressed in affected products as CVE-2009-0166.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (12 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 10.09% (0.10091) | 95.50th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 10.09% (0.10091) | 95.02th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 19, 2025 | 13.98% (0.13982) | 94.11th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 16.69% (0.16694) | 94.37th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 25.25% (0.25246) | 93.86th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 16.69% (0.16694) | 94.42th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 7.11% (0.07110) | 93.94th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 5.72% (0.05720) | 93.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 5.32% (0.05322) | 91.85th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 80.77th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 78.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 57.73th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (14)
- http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-January/004403.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33853 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0059 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/13/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/19/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502761/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33749 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0756 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488339 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0756
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0756
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