Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-4035

Title: Xpdf RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-4035.

CWE Category CWE-94
Published Date Dec 21, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.78%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-4035: The FoFiType1::parse function in fofi/FoFiType1.cc in Xpdf 3.0.0, gpdf 2.8.2, kpdf in kdegraphics 3.3.1, and possibly other libraries and versions, does not check the return value of the getNextLine function, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with a crafted Type 1 font that can produce a negative value, leading to a signed-to-unsigned integer conversion error and a buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

F
foolabs 1
X
xpdf 1
K
kde 2
G
gnome 1
G
gpdf_project 1

Reference Links

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/fofi/FoFiType1.cc?id=4b4fc5c0 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/fofi/FoFiType1.cc?id=4b4fc5c017bf147c9069bbce32fc14467bd2a81a http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37641 http://secunia.com/advisories/37781 http://secunia.com/advisories/37787 http://secunia.com/advisories/37793 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1680.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1681.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1682.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37350 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023356 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3555 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541614 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54831 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10996 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/diff/fofi/FoFiType1.cc?id=4b4fc5c0 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/fofi/FoFiType1.cc?id=4b4fc5c017bf147c9069bbce32fc14467bd2a81a http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/37641 http://secunia.com/advisories/37781 http://secunia.com/advisories/37787 http://secunia.com/advisories/37793 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1680.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1681.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1682.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37350 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023356 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3555 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541614 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54831 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10996
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-2009-4035 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.