CVE-2017-14929

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::dictLookup() in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opFill, Gfx::doPatternFill, Gfx::doTilingPatternFill and Gfx::drawForm calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop), a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14519.

Affected products

poppler: 0.59.0

References

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102969
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102969
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097

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