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CVE-2017-9408

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• poppler: 0.54.0

References

• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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