CVE-2009-0756
The JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 10.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers a parsing error, which is not properly handled by JBIG2SymbolDict::~JBIG2SymbolDict and triggers an invalid memory dereference.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Poppler 0.10.3 - Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32800dos, linuxpublished 12 Feb 2009Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 10.1% · top 4.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 33749 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 33853 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20090219 Re: CVE Request: Poppler -Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20090213 CVE Request: Poppler -Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0059 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 35685 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20090417 rPSA-2009-0059-1 poppler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [poppler] 20090123 poppler/JBIG2Stream.cc (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-0756 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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