Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler package, versions <0.24.5-2ubuntu4.9
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- published2 Oct 2017
- disclosed2 Oct 2017
Introduced: 2 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-14976 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 poppler to version 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.9 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 FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-14976
- https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14976