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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-9903

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.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-9903

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Mar 2019, 18:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2019-9903
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9903",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-9903",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-9903",
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XGYLZZ4DZUDBQEGCNDWSZPSFNNZJF4S6/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XWWVIYFXM74KJFIDHP4W67HR4FRF2LDE/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2713",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/",
        "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/741",
        "https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/stack-based-buffer-overflows-in-dictfind-poppler-0-74-0/"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382401,
  "published_at": "2019-03-21T18:29:00.66+00:00"
}