The Splash::drawImage function in Splash.cc in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in GPdf and kdegraphics KPDF, does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a NULL pointer dereference or a heap-based buffer overflow.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb2
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/?id=284a928996&id2=75c3466ba2
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035340.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035399.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035408.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526911
http://secunia.com/advisories/37023
http://secunia.com/advisories/37028
http://secunia.com/advisories/37037
http://secunia.com/advisories/37042
http://secunia.com/advisories/37043
http://secunia.com/advisories/37053
http://secunia.com/advisories/37077
http://secunia.com/advisories/37079
http://secunia.com/advisories/37114
http://secunia.com/advisories/37159
http://secunia.com/advisories/39327
http://secunia.com/advisories/39938
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023029
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53795
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10969
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1500.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1502.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1503.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1512.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-274030-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021706.1-1
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00750.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00784.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2028
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2050
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:287
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:087
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-3
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2924
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2928
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0802
Published: 2009-10-21
Base Score: 9.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: High