CVE-2017-14519

Publication date 17 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::streamGetChar in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opShowText, and Gfx::doShowText calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop).

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.2
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.3
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.6

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3433-1
    • poppler vulnerabilities
    • 2 October 2017

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