Medium 5.0Published Nov 23, 2013

CVE-2013-4474Format 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…

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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.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

canonical ubuntu_linux canonical:ubuntu_linux	12.04; 14.04; 15.10	NVD
freedesktop poppler freedesktop:poppler	through 0.24.1; 0.1; 0.1.1; 0.1.2; 0.2.0; 0.3.0; 0.3.1; 0.3.2; and 112 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://bugs.debian.org/723124
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=61f79b8447c3ac8ab5a26e79e0c28053ffdccf75	vendor-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/56567
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/29/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63374
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434	vendor-advisory

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