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Ubuntu: USN-3440-1 (CVE-2017-14977): poppler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3440-1 (CVE-2017-14977): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/01/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/06/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler44
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler64
  • ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • USN-3440-1
  • DSA-4079
  • CVE-2017-14977

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