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CVE-2017-9406

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Published

2017-06-02T19:29:00.277

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-772

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	freedesktop	poppler	0.54.0	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	8.0	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	9.0	Yes

References

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)