CVE-2017-14975

The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability because a data structure is not initialized, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-10-02

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Poppler (Freedesktop)

References

• https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102653
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079