Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-3604

Title: Kde Kpdf RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-3604.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Oct 21, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
8.70%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-3604: The Splash::drawImage function in Splash.cc in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in GPdf and kdegraphics KPDF, does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a NULL pointer dereference or a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

X
xpdf 1
K
kde 1
G
gnome 1
P
poppler 1
F
freedesktop 1
G
gpdf_project 1
G
glyphandcog 1
F
foolabs 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb2 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/?id=284a928996&id2=75c3466ba2 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://secunia.com/advisories/37023 http://secunia.com/advisories/37028 http://secunia.com/advisories/37037 http://secunia.com/advisories/37042 http://secunia.com/advisories/37043 http://secunia.com/advisories/37053 http://secunia.com/advisories/37077 http://secunia.com/advisories/37079 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://site.pi3.com.pl/adv/xpdf.txt 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/2009/2928 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=526911 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53795 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10969 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 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://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=9cf2325fb2 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/?id=284a928996&id2=75c3466ba2 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://secunia.com/advisories/37023 http://secunia.com/advisories/37028 http://secunia.com/advisories/37037 http://secunia.com/advisories/37042 http://secunia.com/advisories/37043 http://secunia.com/advisories/37053 http://secunia.com/advisories/37077 http://secunia.com/advisories/37079 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://site.pi3.com.pl/adv/xpdf.txt 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/2009/2928 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=526911 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53795 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10969 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 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-2009-3604 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.