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Red Hat: CVE-2017-14976: poppler: Heap-based buffer over-read in the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2017-14976: poppler: Heap-based buffer over-read in the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2017-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-125, Red Hat, 2017, 14976, poppler, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 2

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Sep 14, 2017

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 16, 2026

Description

The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2017-6452
NVD-CVE-2017-14976
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-6452

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