CVE-2009-0219
The PDF distiller in the Attachment Service in Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1.3 through 4.1.6, BlackBerry…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The PDF distiller in the Attachment Service in Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1.3 through 4.1.6, BlackBerry Professional Software 4.1.4, and BlackBerry Unite! before 1.0.3 bundle 28 performs delete operations on uninitialized pointers, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted data stream in a .pdf file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.9% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 33250 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB17118 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20090113 RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server Attachment Service PDF Distiller Uninitialized Memory Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 1021559 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB17119 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33534 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-0219)Record last updated .