CVE-2009-1181: Apple Cups

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file that triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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.