CVE-2017-9083

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3350-1

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

En poppler versión 0.54.0, como es usado en Evince y otros productos, presenta una desreferencia de puntero NULL en la función JPXStream::readUByte en el archivo JPXStream.cc. Por ejemplo, la utilidad perf_test se bloqueará (por fallo de segmentación) al analizar un archivo PDF inválido.

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-05-19 CVE Reserved
2017-05-19 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-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084	2024-08-05

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17	2019-03-14

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"				0.54.0 Search vendor "Freedesktop" for product "Poppler" and version "0.54.0"		-		Affected