CVE-2019-9543 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2019-9543 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.64% · 70.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.64%

70.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS	poppler	24.02.0-1ubuntu9.5, 0, 23.08.0-2ubuntu1
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS	poppler	0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm3, 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.8, 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9
Ubuntu:25.10	poppler	0, 25.03.0-3, 25.03.0-4
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS	poppler	0.86.1-0ubuntu1.7+esm1, 0, 0.80.0-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS	poppler	22.02.0-2ubuntu0.5, 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.6, 22.02.0-2ubuntu0.7
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	poppler	0.41.0-0ubuntu1.13, 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12, 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.11

Timeline

Mar 1, 2019 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

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

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