PT-2017-17367 · Podofo+2 · Podofo+2

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-03-15 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2017-6840

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PoDoFo version 0.9.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. This is due to an invalid read in the ColorChanger::GetColorFromStack function in colorchanger.cpp.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2017-6840

DLA-968-1

MGASA-2018-0026

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024_3550-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1

SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1

SUSE-SU-2024:3550-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

Suse

References · 96

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0026.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:3550-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6840 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6840 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0026 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6840 · Security Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5309 · Note