CVE-2017-9406 Information

Description

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.

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=100775 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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