| Name | CVE-2017-9406 |
| Description | In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4079-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 864010 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| poppler (PTS) | bullseye | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 22.12.0-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 25.03.0-5 | fixed |
| forky, sid | 25.03.0-11.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - poppler <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=278439531b13b0b047dbe3a75aa3f1b3407c8bd4