SUSE-SU-2017:1998-1

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    SUSE-SU-2017:1998-1

    Published: 28 Jul 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for poppler

    Details: This update for poppler fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-9775: Fix a stack overflow bug in pdftocairo that could have been exploited in a denial of service attack through a specially crafted PDF document. (bsc#1045719) - CVE-2017-9776: Fix an integer overflow bug that could have been exploited in a denial of service attack through a specially crafted PDF document. (bsc#1045721) - CVE-2017-9408: Fix a memory leak that occurred when the parser tried to recover from a broken input file. (bsc#1042802)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20171998-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1042802, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1045719, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1045721, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9408, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9775, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-9776

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.24.4-14.6.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High