NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions <0.48.0-2ubuntu2.3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-POPPLER-426485
  • 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:17.04 poppler to version 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.3 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:17.04 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.