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CVE-2017-14976

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• poppler: 0.59.0

References

• https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
• https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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