6.5med
CVE-2017-9083
poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc.
Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
6.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.1%
percentile 66%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.12% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
References
- bugs.freedesktop.org /show_bug.cgi?id=101084 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- security.gentoo.org /glsa/201801-17 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-9083
- NVD: CVE-2017-9083
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