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High USN-3350-1 7 CVEs

poppler vulnerabilities

Published Jul 7, 2017 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

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

ReleasePackageFixed 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

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2820
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7511
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7515
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9083
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9406
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9408
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9775