CVE-2009-3938: Poppler

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Poppler Poppler: version 0.10.6 only; version 0.12.0 only

Published 2009-11-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.