CVE-2010-3702

high
Published 2010-11-05 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The Gfx::getPos function in the PDF parser in xpdf before 3.02pl5, poppler 0.8.7 and possibly other versions up to 0.15.1, CUPS, kdegraphics, and possibly other products allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unknown vectors that trigger an uninitialized pointer dereference.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14 Affected โ€”
13 Affected โ€”
12 Affected โ€”
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
5.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
11.3 Affected โ€”
11.2 Affected โ€”
11.1 Affected โ€”
11 Affected โ€”
10 Affected โ€”
9 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
10.10 Affected โ€”
10.04 Affected โ€”
9.10 Affected โ€”
9.04 Affected โ€”
8.04 Affected โ€”
6.06 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.12.4-1.2
sid Fixed 0.12.4-1.2
forky Fixed 0.12.4-1.2
bullseye Fixed 0.12.4-1.2
bookworm Fixed 0.12.4-1.2
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
macos applecups{"endIncluding":"1.3.11"}
freedesktoppoppler{"startIncluding":"0.8.7","endIncluding":"0.15.1"}
xpdfreaderxpdf{"endIncluding":"3.01"}
xpdfreaderxpdf3.02

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.