NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-POPPLER-1557238
  • published19 May 2017
  • disclosed19 May 2017

Introduced: 19 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 Debian:12 poppler.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler package and not the poppler package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 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.