vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4646-1 (CVE-2019-9959): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 22, 2019
Added
Nov 27, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

The JPXStream::init function in Poppler 0.78.0 and earlier doesn't check for negative values of stream length, leading to an Integer Overflow, thereby making it possible to allocate a large memory chunk on the heap, with a size controlled by an attacker, as demonstrated by pdftocairo.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler73ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils
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