High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 30, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-14929
CVE-2017-14929
Description
In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::dictLookup() in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opFill, Gfx::doPatternFill, Gfx::doTilingPatternFill and Gfx::drawForm calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop), a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14519.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:0.59.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2- bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097nvd
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