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SUSE: CVE-2017-14975: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-14975: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/01/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/13/2018
Modified
06/20/2021

Description

The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability because a data structure is not initialized, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-cpp0
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-glib-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-glib8
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-qt4-4
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-qt4-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler60
  • suse-upgrade-poppler-tools
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-poppler-0_18

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1
  • DSA-4079
  • CVE-2017-14975
  • USN-3440-1

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