Infinite loop in Poppler - CVE-2017-14929

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Infinite loop in Poppler - CVE-2017-14929

Published: January 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10325
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14929
CWE-ID: CWE-835
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to infinite loop in a call to Object::dictLookup() in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opFill, Gfx::doPatternFill, Gfx::doTilingPatternFill and Gfx::drawForm calls. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

Poppler
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
mingw-poppler
poppler

How to mitigate CVE-2017-14929

Install update from vendor's website.

mingw-poppler - addressed in versions 0.45.0-5.fc25, 0.52.0-5.fc26
poppler - addressed in versions 0.45.0-6.fc25, 0.45.0-7.fc25, 0.45.0-8.fc25, 0.45.0-9.fc25, 0.52.0-5.fc26, 0.52.0-6.fc26, 0.52.0-7.fc26, 0.52.0-8.fc26, 0.52.0-9.fc26, 0.57.0-2.fc27, 0.57.0-3.fc27, 0.57.0-4.fc27, 0.57.0-5.fc27

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