CVE-2017-9865

Name: CVE-2017-9865
Creator: NVD / NIST
Published: 2017-06-25T13:29:00.18+00:00
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Unknown

Last modified Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-9865 is a vulnerability of currently unknown severity. The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc..

Description

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Affected Software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Freedesktop	Poppler	0.54.0
Debian	Debian Linux	8.0
Debian	Debian Linux	9.0

References

http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079Third Party Advisory
http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 25, 2017
Last Modified: Jun 17, 2026
Status: Modified

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Source: NVD / NIST