NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler-utils package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.12% (46th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-POPPLERUTILS-1981518
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 11 Sep 2017
Introduced: 11 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14975 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:6 poppler-utils.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-utils package and not the poppler-utils package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.
The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability because a data structure is not initialized, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.