CVE-2017-14617

HIGH

Poppler 0.59.0 - Denial of Service via Floating Point Exception in ImageStream

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in the ImageStream class in Stream.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102854

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0094
EPSS Percentile 56.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
freedesktop/poppler 0.59.0
Published Sep 20, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026