Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting poppler package, versions <0.48.0-2+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-POPPLER-426473
  • published2 Jun 2017
  • disclosed2 Jun 2017

Introduced: 2 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9406  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 poppler to version 0.48.0-2+deb9u1 or higher.

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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.