UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9083

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9083

    Published: 19 May 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9083
    Aliases:
    USN-3350-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9083, https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2017-May/012230.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3350-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9083

    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

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