CVE-2009-0166: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file that triggers a free of uninitialized memory.

Affected products

• Apple Cups: up to and including 1.3.9; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; version 1.1.4 only; …
• Foolabs Xpdf: version 0.5a only; version 0.7a only; version 0.91a only; version 0.91b only; version 0.91c only; version 0.92a only; …
• Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: up to and including 3.02; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; …
• Poppler Poppler: up to and including 0.10.5; version 0.1 only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.3.0 only; …

Published 2009-04-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.