UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2820

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-2820

    Published: 7 Jul 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-2820
    Aliases:
    USN-3350-1

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2820, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0321, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3350-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2820

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5

    Affected versions

    0.24.1-0ubuntu1
    0.24.3-0ubuntu1
    0.24.3-0ubuntu2
    0.24.3-0ubuntu3
    0.24.3-0ubuntu4
    0.24.3-0ubuntu5
    0.24.3-0ubuntu6
    0.24.3-0ubuntu7
    0.24.3-0ubuntu8
    0.24.3-0ubuntu10
    0.24.3-0ubuntu12
    0.24.5-0ubuntu3
    0.24.5-2ubuntu1
    0.24.5-2ubuntu2
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.1
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.2
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.3
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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