CVE-2019-9543

HIGH 8.8CVE-2019-9543 · Published 01/03/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-9543 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting poppler (freedesktop).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.3%, higher than 88.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
poppler freedesktop	`= 0.74.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/107238 · Third Party Advisory
gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/730 · Exploit
research.loginsoft.com/bugs/recursive-function-call-in-function-jbig2streamreadgenericbitmap-poppler-0-74-0 · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

poppler

freedesktop

= 0.74.0

No fix yet

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