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CVE-2017-9865

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• poppler: 0.54.0

References

• http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079
• http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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