CVE-2017-9406

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.54.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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)

[Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0105

EPSS Percentile 77.3%

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 (4)

freedesktop/poppler

debian/debian_linux

n/a/n/a

Published Jun 02, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026