What is CVE-2010-4653?

CVE-2010-4653 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-11-13.

How severe is CVE-2010-4653?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2010-4653

An integer overflow condition in poppler before 0.16.3 can occur when parsing CharCodes for fonts.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2019-11-13 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.018 (77.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 77.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler
Poppler — versions before 0.16.3
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4653 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4653 (Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-03.xml (Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/45948 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2010-4653?: CVE-2010-4653 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-11-13.
How severe is CVE-2010-4653?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.