CVE-2017-14927

Publication date 30 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

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

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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 end of life
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

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Package Patch details
poppler

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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