Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-3603

Title: Glyphandcog Xpdfreader RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-3603.

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Oct 21, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-3603: Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1 might allow remote attackers to 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. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1188.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035340.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035399.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035408.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ http://secunia.com/advisories/37034 http://secunia.com/advisories/37053 http://secunia.com/advisories/37054 http://secunia.com/advisories/37114 http://secunia.com/advisories/37159 http://secunia.com/advisories/39327 http://secunia.com/advisories/39938 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023029 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-274030-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021706.1-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2028 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2050 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:287 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:087 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36703 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-3 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2924 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2925 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0802 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1040 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1220 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526915 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53793 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9671 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1504.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00750.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00784.html ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035340.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035399.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035408.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ http://secunia.com/advisories/37034 http://secunia.com/advisories/37053 http://secunia.com/advisories/37054 http://secunia.com/advisories/37114 http://secunia.com/advisories/37159 http://secunia.com/advisories/39327 http://secunia.com/advisories/39938 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023029 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-274030-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021706.1-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2028 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2050 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:287 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:087 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:175 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36703 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-850-3 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2924 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2925 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0802 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1040 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1220 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526915 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53793 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9671 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1504.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00750.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00784.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-3603 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 21, 2009 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.