Medium severity · published Jun 25, 2017
CVE-2017-9865
The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash)…
5.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
PO
Poppler · Freedesktop
0.54.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9865
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9865
Third Party Advisory
http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
usn.ubuntu.com
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
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