CVE-2017-14976 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2017-14976?

CVE-2017-14976 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 1 Oct 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14976?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14976?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-14976 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14976 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CVE-2017-1000440, DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14976, GHSA-jjjr-whrw-jx52, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14976.