PT-2017-17694 · Podofo+2 · Podofo+2

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-04-03 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2017-7383

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, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted PDF document.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, consider avoiding the use of crafted PDF documents until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of untrusted PDF files to minimize the risk of exploitation. 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

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2017-7383

DLA-968-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

Suse

References · 59

• 🔥 https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00252-podofo-nullptr4 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7383 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2019:0393-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7383 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5309 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12982 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-11255 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7382 · Note