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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-10871 json

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0.

published 2019-04-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-2595

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Poppler 0.74.0. There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice at PSOutputDev.cc.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10871

  • evince RHEL 7 3.28.2-9.el7
  • poppler RHEL 7 0.26.5-42.el7
  • evince-dvi RHEL 7 3.28.2-9.el7
  • poppler-qt RHEL 7 0.26.5-42.el7
  • evince-libs RHEL 7 3.28.2-9.el7
  • poppler-cpp RHEL 7 0.26.5-42.el7
  • poppler-glib RHEL 7 0.26.5-42.el7
  • poppler-demos RHEL 7 0.26.5-42.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:1074RHSA-2019:2713

  • poppler SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 0.24.4-14.20.2
  • 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-2022:1724-1SUSE-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-2019-10871 updated cvss 5.1

poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice in PSOutputDev.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 Client (v. 7) evince 3.28.2-9.el7, poppler 0.26.5-42.el7, evince-dvi 3.28.2-9.el7, evince-libs 3.28.2-9.el7, poppler-qt 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-glib 0.26.5-42.el7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) poppler-cpp 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-demos 0.26.5-42.el7, evince-browser-plugin 3.28.2-9.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) poppler 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-qt 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-utils 0.26.5-42.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) poppler-cpp 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-glib 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-demos 0.26.5-42.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) evince 3.28.2-9.el7, poppler 0.26.5-42.el7, evince-dvi 3.28.2-9.el7, evince-libs 3.28.2-9.el7, poppler-qt 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-glib 0.26.5-42.el7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) poppler-qt 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-cpp 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-demos 0.26.5-42.el7, evince-browser-plugin 3.28.2-9.el7
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) evince 3.28.2-9.el7, poppler 0.26.5-42.el7, evince-dvi 3.28.2-9.el7, evince-libs 3.28.2-9.el7, poppler-qt 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-glib 0.26.5-42.el7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) poppler-cpp 0.26.5-42.el7, poppler-demos 0.26.5-42.el7, evince-browser-plugin 3.28.2-9.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1074
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.49% 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/751 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/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

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Sources

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