Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published May 19, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-9083
CVE-2017-9083
Description
poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2
< 0.24.4-14.3.1+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.24.4-14.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.24.4-14.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.24.4-14.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.24.4-14.3.1
Patches
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References
2- bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17nvdThird Party Advisory
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