VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-9083

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM

EPSS probability1.12%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2017-05-19

Last modified2026-06-17

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

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory