CVE-2017-9083

Published: May 19, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

6.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

Affected (1)

Products: Freedesktop: Poppler

Freedesktop

1 product

Poppler

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Freedesktop Poppler	Version 0.54.0

Related CWEs

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (4)

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

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