Summary
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.
(CVE-2017-2820)
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. (CVE-2017-7511)
It was 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 hang,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7515)
It was 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 cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2017-9083)
It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when processing
PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to consume resources,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9406, CVE-2017-9408)
Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, and Suleman Ali discovered that the poppler
pdftocairo 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.
(CVE-2017-9775)
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS | poppler | 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5 |
| Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS | poppler | 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2 |
Vulnerabilities 7
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High 8.8
An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Po…
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Unscored —
poppler since version 0.17.3 has been vulnerable to NULL pointer dereference in pdfunite triggered by specially crafted…
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Unscored —
poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-o…
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Unscored —
poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte functi…
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Unscored —
In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to …
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Unscored —
In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc, which allows a…
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Unscored —
Stack buffer overflow in GfxState.cc in pdftocairo in Poppler before 0.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of …
References
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2820
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7511
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7515
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9083
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9406
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9408
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report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9775