poppler: stack consumption in function Dict::find() in Dict.cc
Published Mar 21, 2019
6.5
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.41%
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
No data.
Configuration 1
- 0.74.0
Configuration 2
- 28
- 29
- 30
Configuration 3
- 10.0
Configuration 4
- 16.04
- 18.04
- 18.10
- 19.04
Configuration 5
- 8.0
- 8.1
- 8.2
- 8.4
- 8.6
- 8.2
- 8.4
- 8.6
- 8.2
- 8.4
- 8.6
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
poppler-0:0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
Fixed · RHSA-2019:2713
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
poppler
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
poppler
Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
poppler
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | poppler-0:0.66.0-11.el8_0.12 | Fixed | RHSA-2019:2713 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | poppler | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | poppler | Not affected | n/a |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | poppler | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
AV:N/AC:M/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 1, 2026.
Score over time
2021–2026- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
Percentile over time
- EPSS v1
- EPSS v5
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
Table of values (17 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.41% (0.02414) | 83.53th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.25% (0.02251) | 80.56th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Nov 21, 2025 | 0.78% (0.00776) | 72.87th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Sep 27, 2025 | 1.84% (0.01844) | 82.34th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.38% (0.00378) | 57.25th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.85% (0.00852) | 82.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 14, 2024 | 0.85% (0.00852) | 81.81th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 8, 2023 | 1.20% (0.01204) | 83.60th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 3, 2023 | 0.24% (0.00242) | 61.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.35% (0.00346) | 67.13th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.54% (0.01537) | 74.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.18% (0.01183) | 58.77th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 11.69% (0.11687) | 88.96th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2022 | 7.85% (0.07855) | 85.01th | v1 |
| Jan 6, 2022 | 7.85% (0.07855) | 84.84th | v1 |
| Jan 5, 2022 | 1.86% (0.01865) | 76.93th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 14, 2021 | 1.86% (0.01865) | 0.00th | v1 |
References (13)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDBroken Link
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9903 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691724 Issue Tracking
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741 x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XGYLZZ4DZUDBQEGCNDWSZPSFNNZJF4S6/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWWVIYFXM74KJFIDHP4W67HR4FRF2LDE/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-9903
- https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/ x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9903
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