CVE-2017-9408

Publication date 2 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5

Patch details

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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