Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU8668

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

Published: October 3, 2017

Vulnerability identifier: #VU8668

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-2017-11116

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 ExifImageFile::readDQT function in ExifImageFileRead.cpp when processing PDF documents. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted document and trigger application crash.

Affected software

Poppler

How to mitigate CVE-2017-11116

Install update from vendor's repository:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf

External References

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