Out-of-bounds Read Affecting poppler package, versions [,0.59.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-2372071
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-14976  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for poppler.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

CVSS Scores

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