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CVE-2017-9406

Published: 2 June 2017

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
poppler
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty
Released (0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5)
upstream
Released (0.55)
xenial
Released (0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2)
yakkety
Released (0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1)
zesty
Released (0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=278439531b13b0b047dbe3a75aa3f1b3407c8bd4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H