NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions <0.48.0-2ubuntu3
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- published19 May 2017
- disclosed19 May 2017
Introduced: 19 May 2017
CVE-2017-9083 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 poppler to version 0.48.0-2ubuntu3 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:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.