NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package texlive-bin (opens in a new tab)
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- published19 May 2017
- disclosed19 May 2017
Introduced: 19 May 2017
CVE-2017-9083 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-bin package and not the texlive-bin package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.