Integer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2017-9776

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Integer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2017-9776

Published: June 26, 2017 / Updated: June 30, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7272
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9776
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow when processing PDF files within JBIG2Stream.cc in pdftocairo in Poppler before 0.56. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted PDF file, trick the victim into opening it, trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

Poppler
Arch Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Ubuntu
Fedora
mingw-poppler
poppler

How to mitigate CVE-2017-9776

Update to version 0.56.

mingw-poppler - addressed in versions 0.41.0-3.fc24, 0.45.0-3.fc25, 0.52.0-3.fc26
poppler - addressed in versions 0.45.0-5.fc25, 0.52.0-4.fc26

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