CVE-2017-7515 Denial of service in poppler
An attacker can cause a denial of service in applications using the poppler library via uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite.
- 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-2017-7515?
CVE-2017-7515 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, published on 6 Jun 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
poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.
Weakness: CWE-674
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-7515?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freedesktop Poppler.
How do I fix CVE-2017-7515?
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-2017-7515 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-7515 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Freedesktop Poppler
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7515, GHSA-c53c-xhhc-3hpj, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7515.