NULL pointer derefenrece in Poppler - CVE-2017-15565
Published: October 30, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU8988
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15565
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) conditions.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in GfxImageColorMap::getGrayLine() function in GfxState.cc when processing PDF documents. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted document, trigger NULL pointer dereference and perform a denial of service attack.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause application crash.
Affected software
Poppler
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
openSUSE Leap
poppler
mingw-poppler
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
openSUSE Leap
poppler
mingw-poppler
How to mitigate CVE-2017-15565
poppler - addressed in versions 0.45.0-10.fc25, 0.52.0-10.fc26, 0.57.0-6.fc27
mingw-poppler - update to 0.52.0-6.fc26
mingw-poppler - update to 0.52.0-6.fc26