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A vulnerability has been found in Krzysztof Kowalczyk SumatraPDF up to 0.9.3 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function loadexponentialfunc. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability was named CVE-2009-1605. There is no exploit available. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Krzysztof Kowalczyk SumatraPDF up to 0.9.3. This affects the function loadexponentialfunc. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the loadexponentialfunc function in mupdf/pdf_function.c in MuPDF in the mupdf-20090223-win32 package, as used in SumatraPDF 0.9.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

The weakness was disclosed 05/11/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-1605 since 05/11/2009. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/13/2024).

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Secunia (SA34916†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Krzysztof Kowalczyk

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• SumatraPDF

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• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.8.1
• 0.9
• 0.9.1
• 0.9.2
• 0.9.3

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