NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting poppler package, versions [,0.59.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-2372112
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for poppler.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. In Poppler 0.59.0, a NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the XRef::parseEntry() function in XRef.cc via a crafted PDF document.

CVSS Scores

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