CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-9083

Low
Published: —Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Poppler 0.54.0 (as used in Evince and other products) has a NULL pointer dereference in JPXStream::readUByte in JPXStream.cc. Parsing an invalid PDF file causes a crash (segmentation fault).

Risk Assessment

An attacker can supply a crafted PDF that crashes the document viewer application, resulting in denial of service.

Recommendation

Upgrade Poppler/Evince to a patched version; until then, avoid opening untrusted PDF files.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS