CVE-2013-1790 Memory corruption in n/a
Attackers can trigger uninitialized memory reads in the poppler library via crafted PDFs, potentially causing crashes or information disclosure.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not stated
- Attackable
- Not stated
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-1790?
CVE-2013-1790 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, published on 9 Apr 2013.
Official description
poppler/Stream.cc in poppler before 0.22.1 allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via vectors that trigger a read of uninitialized memory by the CCITTFaxStream::lookChar function.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1790?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freedesktop Poppler.
How do I fix CVE-2013-1790?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2013-1790 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1790 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freedesktop Poppler
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1790, GHSA-hcc2-w269-v2fq.