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Debian 7 Wheezy: DLA-1177-1 Critical: Poppler Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
A recent security update for Poppler in Debian LTS resolves concerns related to denial of service and pointer vulnerabilities impacting the PDF rendering library.
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 bu...

Summary

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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Package: poppler
Version: 0.18.4-6+deb7u4
CVE ID: CVE-2017-14975 CVE-2017-14976 CVE-2017-14977
Debian Bug: 879066 877952 877954 877957

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