CVE-2017-9083 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5