| 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, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4079-1 |
| NVD severity | medium (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 864010 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| poppler (PTS) | wheezy | 0.18.4-6 | fixed |
| wheezy (security) | 0.18.4-6+deb7u5 | fixed | |
| jessie | 0.26.5-2+deb8u1 | vulnerable | |
| jessie (security) | 0.26.5-2+deb8u4 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 0.48.0-2+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster | 0.62.0-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 0.63.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| poppler | source | (unstable) | 0.57.0-2 | low | 864010 | |
| poppler | source | jessie | 0.26.5-2+deb8u2 | medium | DSA-4079-1 | |
| poppler | source | stretch | 0.48.0-2+deb9u1 | medium | DSA-4079-1 | |
| poppler | source | wheezy | (not affected) |
[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