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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-9200

It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 3.47%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A heap-based buffer underwrite exists in ImageStream::getLine() located at Stream.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 that can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

CVSS 3.0
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.47% probability · 88th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
freedesktop/poppler · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.