Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting poppler-qt4 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-POPPLERQT4-1378872
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed24 Apr 2017

Introduced: 24 Apr 2017

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 poppler-qt4.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-qt4 package and not the poppler-qt4 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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.