CVE-2017-9083

Publication date 19 May 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
luatex	19.04 disco	Not in release
	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
poppler	19.04 disco	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
	17.10 artful	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
texlive-bin	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

I didn't inspect texlive-bin or luatex closely since I didn't spot a patch quickly

mdeslaur

while Debian uses openjpeg, Ubuntu uses the internal JPX decoder texlive-bin is built with --with-system-poppler and --with-system-xpdf, so embedded code copy isn't used.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3350-1
poppler vulnerabilities
7 July 2017