CVE-2013-4474: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 10.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in the extractPages function in utils/pdfseparate.cc in poppler before 0.24.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via format string specifiers in a destination filename.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: up to and including 0.24.1; 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 2013-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.