High severity8.8OSV Advisory· Published Mar 1, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-9543
CVE-2019-9543
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.
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Affected products
3poppler-0.10.0, poppler-0.11.0, poppler-0.11.1, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: poppler-0.10.0, poppler-0.11.0, poppler-0.11.1, …
- (no CPE)range: =0.74.0
Patches
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References
3- gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/730nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/107238nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- research.loginsoft.com/bugs/recursive-function-call-in-function-jbig2streamreadgenericbitmap-poppler-0-74-0/nvdThird Party Advisory
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