PT-2017-18055 · Podofo+2 · Podofo+2

Icepng · Published 2017-04-21 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2017-7994

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/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. This is due to a problem in the TextExtractor::ExtractText function in TextExtractor.cpp.

Recommendations For PoDoFo version 0.9.5, consider avoiding the use of the TextExtractor::ExtractText 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

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-2273

CVE-2017-7994

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_0066-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Podofo

Suse

References · 63

• 🔥 https://github.com/icepng/PoC/tree/master/PoC1 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://icepng.github.io/2017/04/21/PoDoFo-1 · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7994 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7994 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7994 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11178-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7994 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7994 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:2481-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7994 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7994 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5309 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1032017 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1023070 · Note