vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3517-1 (CVE-2017-14976): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 1, 2017
Added
Jan 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solutions

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