| Name | CVE-2019-9543 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 923553 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| poppler (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.26.5-2+deb8u16 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 0.48.0-2+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 0.48.0-2+deb9u6 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 0.71.0-5+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 22.12.0-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 24.08.0-3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| poppler | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| poppler | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | low | | 923553 |
Notes
[bookworm] - poppler <ignored> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - poppler <ignored> (Minor issue)
[buster] - poppler <ignored> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - poppler <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - poppler <postponed> (Minor issue; revisit when fixed upstream)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/730