CVE-2017-9408

moderate-risk

Published 2017-06-02

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Do I need to act?

1.0% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — moderate exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (3)

Poppler

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Freedesktop Debian

References (6)

Issue Tracking https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

Issue Tracking https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 3/34 · Minimal

Exposure 9/34 · Low