CVE-2017-14519 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a denial of service in applications using Poppler by triggering an infinite loop during PDF rendering.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-14519?
CVE-2017-14519 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, published on 17 Sep 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::streamGetChar in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opShowText, and Gfx::doShowText calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop).
Weakness: CWE-835
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14519?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freedesktop Poppler.
How do I fix CVE-2017-14519?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-14519 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14519 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freedesktop Poppler
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14519, GHSA-h552-2xrp-fmr5, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14519, USN-3433-1.