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CVE-2009-0166

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0166 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the JBIG2 decoder affecting Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, and other products like Apple and Poppler. An attacker can trigger a crash by providing a specially crafted PDF file that causes the software to free uninitialized memory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, requiring no authentication and being network-exploitable. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.91cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foolabs:xpdf:0.91c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0232 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 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 (11)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
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-2009-0166Low

xpdf: Freeing of potentially uninitialized memory in JBIG2 decoder

Apr 16, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00011.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2009-0458.html
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/34291
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34481
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34755
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34756
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34852
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34959
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34963
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34991
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35037
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35064
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35065
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35618
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35685
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200904-20.xml
slackware.com / security/viewer.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9778
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg00567.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01277.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01291.html
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2009-0061
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1790
Patch
debian.org / security/2009/dsa-1793
Patch
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0429.html
Patch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0430.html
Patch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0431.html
Patch
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0480.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / archive/1/502750/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/34568
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1065
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1066
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1077
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1040
Vendor Advisory