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CVE-2019-9545 json

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-18917

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. A recursive function call, in JBIG2Stream::readTextRegion() located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to JBIG2Bitmap::clearToZero.

Patch / fix

  • poppler SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP5, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 +2 more 0.79.0-150200.3.26.1
  • poppler SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.24.4-14.41.1
  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.40.1
  • poppler-qt SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.40.1
  • poppler openSUSE Leap 15.4 0.62.0-150000.4.31.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:4562-1SUSE-SU-2023:4546-1SUSE-SU-2023:4362-1SUSE-SU-2023:4270-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-9545 updated cvss 0.0

poppler: recursive function call in JBIG2Stream::readTextRegion() in JBIG2Stream.cc causing denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-cpp, poppler-glib, poppler-demos, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 poppler, poppler-cpp, poppler-qt5, poppler-glib, poppler-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/731 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • research.loginsoft.com https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/recursive-function-call-in-function-jbig2streamreadtextregion-poppler-0-74-0/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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