CVE-2017-14617 Denial of service in n/a
A floating point exception in Poppler allows attackers to cause a denial of service via malicious PDF files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-14617?
CVE-2017-14617 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, published on 20 Sep 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in the ImageStream class in Stream.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14617?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freedesktop Poppler.
How do I fix CVE-2017-14617?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2017-14617 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14617 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freedesktop Poppler
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14617, GHSA-xx3m-8628-m9w5, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14617.