NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-POPPLERDEVEL-1987836
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 May 2017

Introduced: 18 May 2017

CVE-2017-9083  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 poppler-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-devel package and not the poppler-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.