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CVE-2017-2820

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

Affected products

• poppler: 0.53.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99497
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0321
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99497
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0321

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