Heap-based buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2017-11116

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Heap-based buffer overflow in Poppler - CVE-2017-11116

Published: October 3, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8668
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11116
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Freedesktop.org
Affected software:
Poppler

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in ExifImageFile::readDQT function in ExifImageFileRead.cpp when processing PDF documents. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted document and trigger application crash.


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