PT-2017-18896 · Poppler+2 · Poppler+2

Published 2017-06-02 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-9406

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 Poppler version 0.54.0

Description A memory leak issue was discovered in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service using a crafted file.

Recommendations For Poppler version 0.54.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-772

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9406

DSA-4079-1

MGASA-2017-0276

SUSE-SU-2017:1672-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1999-1

USN-3350-1

Affected Products

Poppler

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 43

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9406 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/7G2XFEFF6S2H4DRDPUXBUWPEEDGE37EG · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9083 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9406 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9406 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/MPWSH7JKKVEIEQEEILCRHTF7HL7BSYW4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3350-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9775 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9406 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3350-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1672-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0276.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:1999-1 · Vendor Advisory