CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14976
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• freedesktop poppler 0.59.0
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724 Exploit, Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724 Exploit, Issue Tracking, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 Third Party Advisory