CVE-2019-9545

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.

CVSS v3.0

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

1.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 77th percentile

Published

2019-03-01

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/731
• https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/recursive-function-call-in-function-jbig2streamreadte…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-9544
• CVE-2019-9553
• CVE-2019-9543
• CVE-2019-9554
• CVE-2019-9535
• CVE-2019-9556