CVE-2017-14519

Debian Security Advisory 4079-1

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::streamGetChar in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opShowText, and Gfx::doShowText calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop).

En Poppler 0.59.0, existe una corrupción de memoria en una llamada a Object::streamGetChar en Object.h después de repetir series de llamadas Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opShowText y Gfx::doShowText (también conocida como bucle infinito en Gfx.cc).

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.04. It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-09-17 CVE Reserved
2017-09-17 CVE Published
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
2024-08-05 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102701	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079	2019-10-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Freedesktop Search vendor "Freedesktop"		Poppler Search vendor "Freedesktop" for product "Poppler"				0.59.0 Search vendor "Freedesktop" for product "Poppler" and version "0.59.0"		-		Affected