CVE-2009-3938
Publication date 13 November 2009
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Buffer overflow in the ABWOutputDev::endWord function in poppler/ABWOutputDev.cc in Poppler (aka libpoppler) 0.10.6, 0.12.0, and possibly other versions, as used by the Abiword pdftoabw utility, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file.
Notes
mdeslaur
as of 2010-01-18, upstream hasn't committed a fix yet debian released patch from bug, but it's not final intrepid+ compiler hardening reduces this to a denial of service. Can't reproduce issue on Hardy. Setting to "low". seems we don't carry the patch that Debian is carrying for this.
jdstrand
pdftoabw was removed in 0.18