CVE-2017-14977

HIGH

Poppler 0.59.0 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0199
EPSS Percentile 78.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
freedesktop/poppler 0.59.0
Published Oct 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026