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Debian: CVE-2017-14929: poppler -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-14929: poppler -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/26/2018
Modified
03/23/2020

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::dictLookup() in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opFill, Gfx::doPatternFill, Gfx::doTilingPatternFill and Gfx::drawForm calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop), a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14519.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-poppler

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