CVE-2017-9865 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-9865?

CVE-2017-9865 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 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

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9865?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Poppler.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9865?

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-2017-9865 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9865 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-2017-9865, GHSA-jjgx-wvcc-8xv3, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9865.