Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2017-14927

Publication date 30 September 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

In Poppler 0.59.0, a NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the SplashOutputDev::type3D0() function in SplashOutputDev.cc via a crafted PDF document.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.57.0-2ubuntu4
17.10 artful
Fixed 0.57.0-2ubuntu4
17.04 zesty Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

leosilva

code in zesty,xenial and trusty are quite different lacking the code that the patch applies against. couldn't reproduce POC in trusty or xenial.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H