CVE-2009-0791

Publication date 9 June 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Multiple integer overflows in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x and Poppler 0.x, as used in the pdftops filter in CUPS 1.1.17, 1.1.22, and 1.3.7, GPdf, and kdegraphics KPDF, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, possibly related to (1) Decrypt.cxx, (2) FoFiTrueType.cxx, (3) gmem.c, (4) JBIG2Stream.cxx, and (5) PSOutputDev.cxx in pdftops/. NOTE: the JBIG2Stream.cxx vector may overlap CVE-2009-1179.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cups 9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release
cupsys 9.04 jaunty Not in release
8.10 intrepid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

we use the system pdftops, so we’re not affected