Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-0791

Title: Apple Cups RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-0791.

CWE Category CWE-189
Published Date Jun 09, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
5.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-0791: 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.

Impacted Vendors

E
easy_software_products 1
A
apple 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35340 http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 http://secunia.com/advisories/37023 http://secunia.com/advisories/37028 http://secunia.com/advisories/37037 http://secunia.com/advisories/37043 http://secunia.com/advisories/37077 http://secunia.com/advisories/37079 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022326 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:334 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1083.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35195 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1488 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2928 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491840 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50941 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10534 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1500.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1502.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1503.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1512.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html http://secunia.com/advisories/35340 http://secunia.com/advisories/35685 http://secunia.com/advisories/37023 http://secunia.com/advisories/37028 http://secunia.com/advisories/37037 http://secunia.com/advisories/37043 http://secunia.com/advisories/37077 http://secunia.com/advisories/37079 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022326 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:334 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1083.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35195 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1488 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2928 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491840 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50941 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10534 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1500.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1502.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1503.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1512.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-0791 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.