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    CVE-2009-3605

    Multiple integer overflows in Poppler 0.10.5 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file, related to (1) glib/poppler-page.cc; (2) ArthurOutputDev.cc, (3) CairoOutputDev.cc, (4) GfxState.cc, (5) JBIG2Stream.cc, (6) PSOutputDev.cc, and (7) SplashOutputDev.cc in poppler/; and (8) SplashBitmap.cc, (9) Splash.cc, and (10) SplashFTFont.cc in splash/. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2009-0791.

    Published:May 19, 2009
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Nov 2, 2009
    EPSS Score:0.04392
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Poppler
    Product
    Poppler

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-92 Forced Integer Overflow

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2025-52885 (CVSS 6.1) — Poppler ia a library for rendering PDF files, and examining or modifying their structure. A use-after-free (wr…
    CVE-2025-43718 (CVSS 2.9) — Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structure…
    CVE-2025-52886 (CVSS 5.5) — Poppler is a PDF rendering library. Versions prior to 25.06.0 use `std::atomic_int` for reference counting. Be…
    CVE-2024-56378 (CVSS 4.3) — libpoppler.so in Poppler through 24.12.0 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability within the JBIG2Bitmap::combi…
    CVE-2010-3704 (CVSS 6.8) — The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in the PDF parser in xpdf before 3.02pl5, poppler 0.8.7 and…
    CVE-2010-3703 (CVSS 4.3) — The PostScriptFunction::PostScriptFunction function in poppler/Function.cc in the PDF parser in poppler 0.8.7 …
    CVE-2009-3607 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the create_surface_from_thumbnail_data function in glib/poppler-page.cc in Poppler 0.x all…
    CVE-2009-3606 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the PSOutputDev::doImageL1Sep function in Xpdf before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in…
    CVE-2009-3603 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12…
    CVE-2009-3608 (CVSS 9.3) — Integer overflow in the ObjectStream::ObjectStream function in XRef.cc in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler …

    References

    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=284a92899602daa4a7f429e61849e794569310b5
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=7b2d314a61fd0e12f47c62996cb49ec0d1ba747a
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb22f812b31858e519411f57747d39bd8
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/37114
    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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:334
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-1
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-3605
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491840
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/poppler_0.10.5-1ubuntu2.4.diff.gz
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/poppler_0.8.7-1ubuntu0.4.diff.gz
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7731
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=284a92899602daa4a7f429e61849e794569310b5
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=7b2d314a61fd0e12f47c62996cb49ec0d1ba747a
    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb22f812b31858e519411f57747d39bd8
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/37114
    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.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:334
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-1
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-3605
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491840
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/poppler_0.10.5-1ubuntu2.4.diff.gz
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/poppler_0.8.7-1ubuntu0.4.diff.gz
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7731

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