CVE-2017-14977

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.

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://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079