CVE-2017-9865

MEDIUM

Poppler 0.54.0 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774
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
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0076
EPSS Percentile 73.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
freedesktop/poppler 0.54.0
Published Jun 25, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026