CVE-2009-3603
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 8.6%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1188.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 8.6% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3584)
- Published
- October 21, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3584 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- foolabs / xpdf
- foolabs / xpdf
- foolabs / xpdf
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
- poppler / poppler
and 8 more…
References
- ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035340.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035399.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035408.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
- http://poppler.freedesktop.org/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37034(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37053(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37054(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37114
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37159
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39327
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39938
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023029
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-274030-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021706.1-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2028
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2050
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:287
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:087
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36703(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-3
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2924(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2925(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0802
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1040
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1220
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526915
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53793
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9671
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1504.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00750.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00784.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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