CVE-2017-1000456 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Poppler

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-682 — Incorrect CalculationCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read10 documents8 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Freedesktop PopplerDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJan 2
Latest updateMay 14

Description

freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 0.61.1-2+3
▶Ubuntufreedesktop/poppler< 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.9+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

Patches

Patch: bugs.freedesktop.org ↗Patch: bugs.freedesktop.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-54wv-g6q8-8695: freedesktop↗2022-05-14
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OSV
poppler vulnerabilities↗2018-01-08
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OSV
CVE-2017-1000456: freedesktop↗2018-01-02
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CVEList
CVE-2017-1000456: freedesktop↗2018-01-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerabilities↗2018-01-08
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Red Hat
poppler: Invalid read in TextPool::addWord() causes crash and can lead to overflow in subsequent calculations↗2017-10-05
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Debian
CVE-2017-1000456: poppler - freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addW...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000456 poppler: Invalid read in TextPool::addWord() causes crash and can lead to overflow in subsequent calculations↗2018-01-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000456 poppler: Invalid read in TextPool::addWord() causes crash and can lead to overflow in subsequent calculations [fedora-all]↗2018-01-05
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CVE-2017-1000456 — Freedesktop Poppler vulnerability | cvebase