CVE-2019-9543

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0

published March 1, 2019

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03312 · 88.5th percentile
Published
2019-03-01T19:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAR 19:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0
    cvelistv5