CVE-2019-9543 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107238 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/730 https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/recursive-function-call-in-function-jbig2streamreadgenericbitmap-poppler-0-74-0/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8