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    CVE-2009-3938

    Buffer overflow in the ABWOutputDev::endWord function in poppler/ABWOutputDev.cc in Poppler (aka libpoppler) 0.10.6, 0.12.0, and possibly other versions, as used by the Abiword pdftoabw utility, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file.

    Published:Aug 1, 2009
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Nov 13, 2009
    EPSS Score:0.03449
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Poppler
    Product
    Poppler

    Exploits

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534680http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23074http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534680http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23074

    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://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534680
    http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=30599&action=edit
    http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23074
    http://secunia.com/advisories/37333
    http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1941
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36976
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3227
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54215
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534680
    http://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=30599&action=edit
    http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23074
    http://secunia.com/advisories/37333
    http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1941
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36976
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3227
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54215

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Changed
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    Integrity
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    High
    Availability
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