CVE-2017-9083

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    CVE-2017-9083

    Published: 19 May 2017Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

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