CVE-2019-9903

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    CVE-2019-9903

    Published: 21 Mar 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107560, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JQ6RABASMSIMMWMDZTP6ZWUWZPTBSVB5/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XGYLZZ4DZUDBQEGCNDWSZPSFNNZJF4S6/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWWVIYFXM74KJFIDHP4W67HR4FRF2LDE/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/, https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741, https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- c0c89223c1724815e8bae78ebac72bb3a4873a68
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.74.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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