CVE-2017-9083

MEDIUM

poppler 0.54.0 - Denial of Service via JPXStream::readUByte NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0112
EPSS Percentile 62.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (1)
freedesktop/poppler 0.54.0
Published May 19, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026