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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-9903 json

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() locate…

published 2019-03-21 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-19258

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.85.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9903

  • poppler Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14
  • poppler Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.9

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9903

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • poppler RHEL 8 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
  • poppler-cpp RHEL 8 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
  • poppler-qt5 RHEL 8 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
  • poppler-glib RHEL 8 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
  • poppler-utils RHEL 8 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2713

  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.19.3
  • poppler-qt SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.43.0-16.19.3
  • poppler SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +8 more 0.62.0-4.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:1723-1SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

  • poppler openSUSE Leap 15.3 0.62.0-4.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-9903 updated cvss 3.3

poppler: stack consumption in function Dict::find() in Dict.cc

  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) poppler-cpp 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12, poppler-qt5 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) poppler 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12, poppler-glib 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12, poppler-utils 0.66.0-11.el8_0.12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2713
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-cpp, poppler-glib, poppler-demos, poppler-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • research.loginsoft.com https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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