NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions <0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-POPPLER-426483
  • published2 Oct 2017
  • disclosed2 Oct 2017

Introduced: 2 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14977  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 poppler to version 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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.