Heap-based buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2017-14976

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Heap-based buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2017-14976

Published: October 2, 2017 / Updated: October 2, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8653
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14976
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc when processing fonts in documents. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted document and trigger application crash.


Affected software

Poppler
Gentoo Linux
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
openSUSE Leap
mingw-poppler
poppler

How to mitigate CVE-2017-14976


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

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