CVE-2013-1788

medium
Published 2013-04-09 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger an "invalid memory access" in (1) splash/Splash.cc, (2) poppler/Function.cc, and (3) poppler/Stream.cc.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.18.4-6
sid Fixed 0.18.4-6
forky Fixed 0.18.4-6
bullseye Fixed 0.18.4-6
bookworm Fixed 0.18.4-6

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freedesktoppoppler{"endIncluding":"0.22.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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