CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14977
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-476
Description
The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, 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-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045 Exploit, Issue Tracking, 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://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045 Exploit, Issue Tracking, 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