NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler-qt package, versions *
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed30 Sept 2017
Introduced: 30 Sep 2017
CVE-2017-14977 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 poppler-qt.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-qt package and not the poppler-qt package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.