National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3607
Original release date:10/21/2009
Last revised:11/04/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the create_surface_from_thumbnail_data function in glib/poppler-page.cc in Poppler 0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Official Statement from Red Hat (10/23/2009)
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of poppler as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-10845
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-10823
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526924
External Source: XF
Name: poppler-createsurfacefromthumbnaildata-bo(53801)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2925
Type: Advisory
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-850-1
External Source: BID
Name: 36718
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37159
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37114
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37054
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=c839b706
