CVE-2009-3603: Foolabs Xpdf

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the SplashBitmap::SplashBitmap function in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1188.

Affected products

• Foolabs Xpdf: version 3.02pl1 only; version 3.02pl2 only; version 3.02pl3 only
• Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: version 3.00 only; version 3.01 only; version 3.02 only
• Poppler Poppler: up to and including 0.12.0; 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 2009-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.