CVE-2017-9406

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.54.0 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in gmalloc

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0146
EPSS Percentile 70.0%
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-772
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
freedesktop/poppler 0.54.0
Published Jun 02, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026