NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions <25.03.0-5+deb13u2+e1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.12% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ECHOLATEST-POPPLER-18496175
  • published1 Aug 2026
  • 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?

Upgrade Echo:latest poppler to version 25.03.0-5+deb13u2+e1 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 Echo. See How to fix? for Echo:latest 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.