CVE-2017-9083 in Poppler
Summary
poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.
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Reservation
05/19/2017
Disclosure
05/19/2017
Status
Confirmed
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101512 | Poppler PDF File JPXStream.cc readUByte null pointer dereference | 476 | Not defined | Official fix | CVE-2017-9083 |