CVE-2009-3604: Foolabs Xpdf

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 8.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Splash::drawImage function in Splash.cc in Xpdf 2.x and 3.x before 3.02pl4, and Poppler 0.x, as used in GPdf and kdegraphics KPDF, does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a NULL pointer dereference or a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Foolabs Xpdf: version 3.02pl1 only; version 3.02pl2 only; version 3.02pl3 only
• Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: version 2.00 only; version 2.01 only; version 2.02 only; version 2.03 only; version 3.00 only; version 3.01 only; …
• Poppler Poppler: version 0.1 only; version 0.1.1 only; version 0.1.2 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.3.1 only; …

Published 2009-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.