CVE-2019-9543

Publication date 1 March 2019

Last updated 4 October 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	24.10 oracular	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2024-10-04, not fixed upstream

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H