PT-2017-14098 · Poppler+2 · Poppler+2

Ziqiang Gu · Published 2017-10-17 · Updated 2020-06-16 · CVE-2017-15565

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Poppler version 0.59.0

Description A NULL Pointer Dereference issue exists in the getGrayLine() function in GfxState.cc, which can be triggered via a crafted PDF document.

Recommendations For Poppler version 0.59.0, consider avoiding the use of the getGrayLine() function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted PDF documents to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-15565

DLA-1177-1

DSA-4079-1

MGASA-2017-0402

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_1721-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1

SUSE-SU-2018:1691-1

SUSE-SU-2020:1626-1

SUSE-SU-2020_1626-1

USN-3467-1

Affected Products

Poppler

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 51

• 🔥 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103016 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:1626-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15565 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1691-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15565 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0402.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15565 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15565 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3467-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15565 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0402 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4079-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15565 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 · Vendor Advisory