Memory leak in Poppler - CVE-2017-9408
Published: July 12, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7487
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9408
CWE-ID: CWE-401
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 memory leak in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc when handling malicious content. A remote attacker can send specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
The weakness exists due to memory leak in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc when handling malicious content. A remote attacker can send specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
Affected software
Poppler
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
poppler
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
poppler
How to mitigate CVE-2017-9408
Update to the latest version.
poppler - addressed in versions 0.45.0-4.fc25, 0.45.0-5.fc25, 0.52.0-3.fc26, 0.52.0-4.fc26