CVE-2017-9406 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Poppler

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime9 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Freedesktop PopplerDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedJun 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianfreedesktop/poppler< 0.57.0-2+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-q648-2xm5-x236: In Poppler 0↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-9406: In Poppler 0↗2017-06-02
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OSV
CVE-2017-9406: In Poppler 0↗2017-06-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
poppler vulnerabilities↗2017-07-07
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Red Hat
poppler: Memory leak in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc↗2017-04-24
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Debian
CVE-2017-9406: poppler - In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9406 CVE-2017-9408 poppler: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-06-05
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-9406 poppler: Memory leak in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc↗2017-06-05
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CVE-2017-9406 — Freedesktop Poppler vulnerability | cvebase