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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9083: Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-9083: Poppler: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/18/2018
Modified
01/18/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-text-poppler

References

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