vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3440-1 (CVE-2017-14520): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 17, 2017
Added
Oct 6, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler64ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils
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