National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0756

Overview

The JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function in Poppler before 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PDF file that triggers a parsing error, which is not properly handled by JBIG2SymbolDict::~JBIG2SymbolDict and triggers an invalid memory dereference.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (07/15/2009)

This issue is a duplicate of CVE-2009-0166, which was addressed in affected products via following updates: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/CVE-2009-0166.html

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External Source: BID

Name: 33749

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33749

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090417 rPSA-2009-0059-1 poppler

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/502761/100/0/threaded

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090219 Re: CVE Request: Poppler -Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/19/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20090213 CVE Request: Poppler -Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/13/1

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0059

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0059

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35685

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35685

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33853

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33853

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:012

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [poppler] 20090123 poppler/JBIG2Stream.cc

Hyperlink:http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-January/004403.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702

Hyperlink:http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19702