High severity · published Sep 17, 2017
CVE-2017-14520
In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files
7.8
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 68% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PO
Poppler · Freedesktop
0.59.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14520
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14520
Exploit
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102719
www.debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
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