CVE-2019-9903: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PDFDoc::markObject in PDFDoc.cc in Poppler 0.74.0 mishandles dict marking, leading to stack consumption in the function Dict::find() located at Dict.cc, which can (for example) be triggered by passing a crafted pdf file to the pdfunite binary.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only; version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 28 only; version 29 only; version 30 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.74.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only; version 8.6 only

Published 2019-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.