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CVE-2017-9083

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

Affected products

• poppler: 0.54.0

References

• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17

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