CVE-2017-14977 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2017-14977?

CVE-2017-14977 is a high-severity 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 FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14977?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14977?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2017-14977 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14977 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14977, GHSA-hjpq-cmqm-x5p7, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14977.