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CVE-2009-0756

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0756 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Poppler versions prior to 0.10.4, specifically within the JBIG2Stream::readSymbolDictSeg function. An attacker can trigger a crash by providing a crafted PDF file that causes a parsing error and an invalid memory dereference. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to a potential denial of service. While not listed on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-32800), though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:poppler:poppler:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32800 · Feb 12, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1009 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0756Low

poppler/evince: DoS via crafted PDF file

Jan 22, 2009

References

bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
lists.freedesktop.org / archives/poppler/2009-January/004403.html
Exploit
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
secunia.com / advisories/33853
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35685
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2009-0059
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/02/13/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/02/19/2
securityfocus.com / archive/1/502761/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/33749