Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1177-1 poppler -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
18 Nov 2017
Affected Packages:
poppler
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 879066, Bug 877952, Bug 877954, Bug 877957.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-14975, CVE-2017-14976, CVE-2017-14977, CVE-2017-15565.
More information:

It was discovered that poppler, a PDF rendering library, was affected by several denial-of-service (application crash), null pointer dereferences and heap-based buffer over-read bugs:

  • CVE-2017-14975

    The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability because a data structure is not initialized, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

  • CVE-2017-14976

    The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc 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.

  • CVE-2017-14977

    The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc 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.

  • CVE-2017-15565

    NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the GfxImageColorMap::getGrayLine() function in GfxState.cc via a crafted PDF document.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 0.18.4-6+deb7u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.

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