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CVE-2017-2820

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3350-1

Severity Score

8.8
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

1
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

Se presenta una vulnerabilidad de desbordamiento de enteros explotable en la funcionalidad de análisis de imágenes JPEG 2000 de freedesktop.org de Poppler versión 0.53.0. Un archivo PDF especialmente creado puede conllevar a un desbordamiento de enteros causando una sobreescritura de memoria fuera de límites en la pila, resultando en una potencial ejecución de código arbitraria. Para desencadenar esta vulnerabilidad, una víctima necesita abrir el PDF malicioso en una aplicación usando esta biblioteca.

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that poppler incorrectly handled JPEG 2000 images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. Jiaqi Peng discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2016-12-01 CVE Reserved
  • 2017-07-07 CVE Published
  • 2024-09-16 CVE Updated
  • 2024-09-16 First Exploit
  • 2025-04-04 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Freedesktop
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Poppler
Search vendor "Freedesktop" for product "Poppler"
0.53.0
Search vendor "Freedesktop" for product "Poppler" and version "0.53.0"
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Affected