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CVE-2009-3609

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CVE-2009-3609 is an integer overflow vulnerability in Xpdf and Poppler, affecting various products like GPdf, KPDF, and CUPS pdftops. A crafted PDF document can trigger a denial of service (application crash) due to a NULL pointer dereference or buffer over-read. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.02pl1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:3.02pl1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.02pl2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:3.02pl2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.02pl3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:3.02pl3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:glyphandcog:xpdfreader:3.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:glyphandcog:xpdfreader:3.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0448 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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 (12)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: xpdf-1:2.02-17.el3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: tetex-0:1.0.7-67.19
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: xpdf-1:3.00-22.el4_8.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gpdf-0:2.8.2-7.7.2.el4_8.5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kdegraphics-7:3.3.1-15.el4_8.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: tetex-0:2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.16
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.32.el4_8.10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kdegraphics-7:3.5.4-15.el5_4.2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: poppler-0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_4.11
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cups-1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3
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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-2009-3609Low

xpdf/poppler: ImageStream:: ImageStream integer overflow

Oct 14, 2009

References

ftp.foolabs.com / pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl4.patch
Exploit
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035340.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035399.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035408.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html
poppler.freedesktop.org
PatchVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/37023
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37028
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37034
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37037
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37043
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37051
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37054
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37061
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37077
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37079
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/37114
secunia.com / advisories/37159
secunia.com / advisories/39327
secunia.com / advisories/39938
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/53800
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11043
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8134
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1500.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1502.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1503.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1504.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1512.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-1513.html
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00750.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00784.html
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2028
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2050
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0755.html
securityfocus.com / bid/36703
ExploitPatch
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-850-1
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-850-3
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2924
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2925
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2926
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2928
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0802
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1220