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CVE-2009-0791

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0791 describes multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in Xpdf 2.x/3.x and Poppler 0.x, impacting products like CUPS, GPdf, and KPDF. A remote attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious PDF file, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or potentially arbitrary code execution via a heap-based buffer overflow. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and high potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. 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
1.1.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.1.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:1.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0554 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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: cups-1:1.1.17-13.3.62
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: xpdf-1:2.02-17.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: tetex-0:1.0.7-67.19
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.32.el4_8.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: xpdf-1:3.00-22.el4_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: gpdf-0:2.8.2-7.7.2.el4_8.5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: kdegraphics-7:3.3.1-15.el4_8.2
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: poppler-0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9
View patch
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: tetex-0:3.0-33.8.el5_5.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-0791Moderate

xpdf: multiple integer overflows

May 19, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/35340
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/35685
secunia.com / advisories/37023
secunia.com / advisories/37028
secunia.com / advisories/37037
secunia.com / advisories/37043
secunia.com / advisories/37077
secunia.com / advisories/37079
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/50941
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10534
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-2009-1512.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1083.html
securityfocus.com / bid/35195
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/1488
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2928