Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2009-0195

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0195 describes a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9, and related products from Apple, Foolabs, and Glyph & Cog. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious PDF file containing specific JBIG2 symbol dictionary segments. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and could lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:0.5a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:0.7a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.91aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:0.91a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.91bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:0.91b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0537 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (10)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: xpdf-1:2.02-14.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el4_7.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: xpdf-1:3.00-20.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kdegraphics-7:3.3.1-13.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gpdf-0:2.8.2-7.7.2.el4_7.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: tetex-0:2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.16
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cups-1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kdegraphics-7:3.5.4-12.el5_3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: poppler-0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: tetex-0:3.0-33.8.el5_5.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0195Important

xpdf: Multiple buffer overflows in JBIG2 decoder (setBitmap, readSymbolDictSeg) (CVE-2009-0195)

Apr 16, 2009

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-0458.html
secunia.com / advisories/34291
secunia.com / advisories/34481
secunia.com / advisories/34756
secunia.com / advisories/34963
secunia.com / advisories/35064
secunia.com / secunia_research/2009-17
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / secunia_research/2009-18
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10076
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0480.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/502759/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/502762/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34791
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1040