CVE-2017-18267

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-05-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
poppler: through 0.64.0
Tower: 3.3
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103238
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00018.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3647-1/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3140
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3505
https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103238
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00024.html

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