CVE-2009-3604

CVE Details

Release Date:	2009-10-21
Impact:	Important	What is this?

Description

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	9.3
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (gpdf)	ELSA-2009-1503	2009-10-15
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kdegraphics)	ELSA-2009-1512	2009-10-15
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (xpdf)	ELSA-2009-1501	2009-10-15
Oracle Linux version 5 (poppler)	ELSA-2009-0480	2009-05-13