CVE-2017-9406

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    CVE-2017-9406

    Published: 2 Jun 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775

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