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CVE-2010-5110

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-5110 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Poppler versions prior to 0.13.3, specifically within the DCTStream.cc component. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by providing a specially crafted PDF file. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), it requires user interaction (opening a malicious PDF) and primarily impacts availability, with no confidentiality or integrity concerns. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0298 is in the 79th 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

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: poppler
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: poppler

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-5110Moderate

poppler: heap based buffer overflow in DCTStream.cc

Jan 27, 2010

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/commit/poppler/DCTStream.cc
ExploitPatch
comments.gmane.org / gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11132
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/59857
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140817-1.html