Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting poppler-utils package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (58th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS6-POPPLERUTILS-1982211
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 14 Sep 2017
Introduced: 14 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14976 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 heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.
References
- https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14976
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html