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CVE-2009-3604

Published: Oct 21, 2009Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-399
9.3CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
8.7%
Top 5.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
2 Known
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

The Splash::drawImage function in Splash.cc in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in GPdf and kdegraphics KPDF, does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a NULL pointer dereference or a heap-based buffer overflow.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:MAu:NC:CI:CA:C
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:CIntegrity
Complete
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

foolabs
commercialaka xpdf
xpdfLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
glyphandcog
commercialaka xpdfreader, xpdf
xpdfreaderMixed
Consumer Software / file-utility
poppler
oss-projectaka poppler-utils
popplerLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Сообщество свободного программного обеспечения
oss-projectaka fsf
Debian GNU/LinuxOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

2 exploit sources identified

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References

ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch
ftp.foolabs.com
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb2
cgit.freedesktop.org
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/?id=284a928996&id2=75c3466ba2
cgit.freedesktop.org
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