PT-2017-13795 · Poppler+2 · Poppler+2

Junchao Luan · Published 2017-10-01 · Updated 2019-05-03 · CVE-2017-14975

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Poppler version 0.59.0

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function, located in FoFiType1C.cc. This vulnerability occurs because a data structure is not properly initialized, allowing an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Recommendations For Poppler version 0.59.0, consider applying a patch or fix that properly initializes the data structure used by the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function to prevent the NULL pointer dereference. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-14975

DLA-1177-1

DSA-4079-1

MGASA-2017-0378

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1721-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1

USN-3440-1

Affected Products

Poppler

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 49

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102653 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14975 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14929 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14928 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14617 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14926 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14975 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3440-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0378 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0378.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14975 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14975 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4079-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14975 · Vendor Advisory