CVE-2019-9903

Publication date 21 March 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 19.04 disco
Fixed 0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.7
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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