CVE-2017-9865

medium

Description

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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

http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-25

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00119