CVE-2017-14520 — Improper Input Validation in Poppler

CWE-20 — Improper Input ValidationCWE-682 — Incorrect Calculation11 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 54.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Freedesktop Poppler
Timeline
PublishedSep 17
Latest updateMay 14

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 0.61.1-2+3
▶Ubuntufreedesktop/poppler< 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-qhcp-r283-5m8c: In Poppler 0↗2022-05-14
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OSV
poppler vulnerabilities↗2017-10-06
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CVEList
CVE-2017-14520: In Poppler 0↗2017-09-17
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OSV
CVE-2017-14520: In Poppler 0↗2017-09-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerabilities↗2017-10-06
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Red Hat
poppler: Floating point exception in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() function in Splash.cc↗2017-09-17
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Debian
CVE-2017-14520: poppler - In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd()...↗2017
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14520 mingw-poppler: Floating point exception in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() function in Splash.cc [fedora-all]↗2017-09-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14520 poppler: Floating point exception in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() function in Splash.cc↗2017-09-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14520 poppler: Floating point exception in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() function in Splash.cc [fedora-all]↗2017-09-22
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