CVE-2009-3604
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 8.7%EU EUVD
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.
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-399
- EPSS score
- 8.7% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3585)
- 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-2009-3585 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
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- glyphandcog / xpdfreader
- gnome / gpdf
- kde / kpdf
- 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 17 more…
References
- ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch(Patch)
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb2
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/?id=284a928996&id2=75c3466ba2
- 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://secunia.com/advisories/37023(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37028(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37037(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37042(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37043(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37053(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37077(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37079(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://site.pi3.com.pl/adv/xpdf.txt(Exploit)
- 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/2009/2928(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=526911(Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53795
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10969
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1500.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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