UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9543

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9543

    Published: 1 Mar 2019Last Modified: 8 Jun 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-9543

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. A recursive function call, in JBIG2Stream::readGenericBitmap() located in JBIG2Stream.cc, can be triggered by sending a crafted pdf file to (for example) the pdfseparate binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is related to JArithmeticDecoder::decodeBit.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9543, https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/recursive-function-call-in-function-jbig2streamreadgenericbitmap-poppler-0-74-0/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9543

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/poppler?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.33.0-0ubuntu3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High