CVE-2017-9083 - poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStrea

CVE-2017-9083

Summary

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

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.54.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.54.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	4.3 (as of 14-03-2019 - 19:00)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-476

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

gentoo	GLSA-201801-17
misc	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

Last major update

14-03-2019 - 19:00

Published

19-05-2017 - 16:29

Last modified

14-03-2019 - 19:00