VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4474

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Published 2013-11-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

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.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-38817 local linux verified
Daniel Kahn Gillmor · 2013-10-26

Poppler 0.14.3 - '/utils/pdfseparate.cc' Local Format String

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.18.4-9
debian debianbullseyefixed0.18.4-9
debian debianforkyfixed0.18.4-9
debian debiansidfixed0.18.4-9
debian debiantrixiefixed0.18.4-9

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
freedesktoppoppler{"endIncluding":"0.24.1"}
freedesktoppoppler0.1
freedesktoppoppler0.1.1
freedesktoppoppler0.1.2
freedesktoppoppler0.2.0
freedesktoppoppler0.3.0
freedesktoppoppler0.3.1
freedesktoppoppler0.3.2
freedesktoppoppler0.3.3
freedesktoppoppler0.4.0
freedesktoppoppler0.4.1
freedesktoppoppler0.4.2
freedesktoppoppler0.4.3
freedesktoppoppler0.4.4
freedesktoppoppler0.5.0
freedesktoppoppler0.5.1
freedesktoppoppler0.5.2
freedesktoppoppler0.5.3
freedesktoppoppler0.5.4
freedesktoppoppler0.5.9
freedesktoppoppler0.5.90
freedesktoppoppler0.5.91
freedesktoppoppler0.6.0
freedesktoppoppler0.6.1
freedesktoppoppler0.6.2
freedesktoppoppler0.6.3
freedesktoppoppler0.6.4
freedesktoppoppler0.7.0
freedesktoppoppler0.7.1
freedesktoppoppler0.7.2
freedesktoppoppler0.7.3
freedesktoppoppler0.8.0
freedesktoppoppler0.8.1
freedesktoppoppler0.8.2
freedesktoppoppler0.8.3
freedesktoppoppler0.8.4
freedesktoppoppler0.8.5
freedesktoppoppler0.8.6
freedesktoppoppler0.8.7
freedesktoppoppler0.9.0
freedesktoppoppler0.9.1
freedesktoppoppler0.9.2
freedesktoppoppler0.9.3
freedesktoppoppler0.10.0
freedesktoppoppler0.10.1
freedesktoppoppler0.10.2
freedesktoppoppler0.10.3
freedesktoppoppler0.10.4
freedesktoppoppler0.10.5
freedesktoppoppler0.10.6
freedesktoppoppler0.10.7
freedesktoppoppler0.11.0
freedesktoppoppler0.11.1
freedesktoppoppler0.11.2
freedesktoppoppler0.11.3
freedesktoppoppler0.12.0
freedesktoppoppler0.12.1
freedesktoppoppler0.12.2
freedesktoppoppler0.12.3
freedesktoppoppler0.12.4
freedesktoppoppler0.13.0
freedesktoppoppler0.13.1
freedesktoppoppler0.13.2
freedesktoppoppler0.13.3
freedesktoppoppler0.13.4
freedesktoppoppler0.14.0
freedesktoppoppler0.14.1
freedesktoppoppler0.14.2
freedesktoppoppler0.14.3
freedesktoppoppler0.14.4
freedesktoppoppler0.14.5
freedesktoppoppler0.15.0
freedesktoppoppler0.15.1
freedesktoppoppler0.15.2
freedesktoppoppler0.15.3
freedesktoppoppler0.16.0
freedesktoppoppler0.16.1
freedesktoppoppler0.16.2
freedesktoppoppler0.16.3
freedesktoppoppler0.16.4
freedesktoppoppler0.16.5
freedesktoppoppler0.16.6
freedesktoppoppler0.16.7
freedesktoppoppler0.17.0
freedesktoppoppler0.17.1
freedesktoppoppler0.17.2
freedesktoppoppler0.17.3
freedesktoppoppler0.17.4
freedesktoppoppler0.18.0
freedesktoppoppler0.18.1
freedesktoppoppler0.18.2
freedesktoppoppler0.18.3
freedesktoppoppler0.18.4
freedesktoppoppler0.19.0
freedesktoppoppler0.19.1
freedesktoppoppler0.19.2
freedesktoppoppler0.19.3
freedesktoppoppler0.19.4
freedesktoppoppler0.20.0
freedesktoppoppler0.20.1
freedesktoppoppler0.20.2
freedesktoppoppler0.20.3
freedesktoppoppler0.20.4
freedesktoppoppler0.20.5
freedesktoppoppler0.21.0
freedesktoppoppler0.21.1
freedesktoppoppler0.21.2
freedesktoppoppler0.21.3
freedesktoppoppler0.21.4
freedesktoppoppler0.22.0
freedesktoppoppler0.22.1
freedesktoppoppler0.22.2
freedesktoppoppler0.22.3
freedesktoppoppler0.22.4
freedesktoppoppler0.23.0
freedesktoppoppler0.23.1
freedesktoppoppler0.23.2
freedesktoppoppler0.23.3
freedesktoppoppler0.23.4
freedesktoppoppler0.24.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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