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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-14977: Vulnerability in Poppler

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-14977: Vulnerability in Poppler

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/01/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/20/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-desktop-pdf-viewer-poppler-0-70-1-11-4-5-0-1-2-0

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