CVE-2019-9200

Publication date 26 February 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A heap-based buffer underwrite exists in ImageStream::getLine() located at Stream.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 that can (for example) be triggered by sending a crafted PDF file to the pdfimages binary. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	19.04 disco	Fixed 0.74.0-0ubuntu1.2
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 0.68.0-0ubuntu1.6
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.8
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.13
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.17

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: f4136a6

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4042-1
poppler vulnerabilities
27 June 2019

USN-3905-1
poppler vulnerability
11 March 2019