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CVE-2013-4474

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.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2013-4474 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from canonical, from freedesktop organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2013, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2013-11-23T11:55:04.663

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	15.10	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	≤ 0.24.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.1.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.1.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.2.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.3.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.3.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.3.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.3.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.4.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.4.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.4.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.4.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.4.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.9	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.90	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.5.91	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.6.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.6.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.6.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.6.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.6.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.7.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.7.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.7.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.7.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.5	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.6	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.8.7	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.9.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.9.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.9.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.9.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.5	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.6	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.10.7	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.11.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.11.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.11.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.11.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.12.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.12.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.12.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.12.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.12.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.13.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.13.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.13.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.13.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.13.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.14.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.14.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.14.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.14.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.14.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.14.5	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.15.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.15.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.15.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.15.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.5	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.6	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.16.7	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.17.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.17.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.17.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.17.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.17.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.18.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.18.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.18.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.18.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.18.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.19.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.19.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.19.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.19.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.19.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.20.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.20.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.20.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.20.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.20.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.20.5	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.21.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.21.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.21.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.21.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.21.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.22.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.22.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.22.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.22.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.22.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.23.0	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.23.1	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.23.2	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.23.3	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.23.4	Yes
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.24.0	Yes

References

http://bugs.debian.org/723124 ([email protected])
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=61f79b8447c3ac8ab5a26e79e0c28053ffdccf75 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/56567 ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/29/1 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63374 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1 ([email protected])
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://bugs.debian.org/723124 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=61f79b8447c3ac8ab5a26e79e0c28053ffdccf75 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/56567 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201401-21.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/29/1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63374 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2958-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69434 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For canonical's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.