CVE-2009-0791
Multiple integer overflows in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x and Poppler 0.x, as used in the pdftops filter in CUPS 1.1.17, 1.1.22, and 1.3.7, GPdf, and…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 5.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple integer overflows in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x and Poppler 0.x, as used in the pdftops filter in CUPS 1.1.17, 1.1.22, and 1.3.7, GPdf, and kdegraphics KPDF, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, possibly related to (1) Decrypt.cxx, (2) FoFiTrueType.cxx, (3) gmem.c, (4) JBIG2Stream.cxx, and (5) PSOutputDev.cxx in pdftops/. NOTE: the JBIG2Stream.cxx vector may overlap CVE-2009-1179.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
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- 1022326 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10534 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 35195 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 37028 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35340 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1501 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 37079 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-1488 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1512 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 37077 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1503 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- cups-pdftops-filter-bo(50941) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 37037 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1502 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1500 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2928 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37023 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35685 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 37043 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:1083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:334 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491840 (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-2009-0789 (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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