USN-3440-1

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    USN-3440-1

    Published: 6 Oct 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: poppler vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-14518, CVE-2017-14520, CVE-2017-14617, CVE-2017-14929, CVE-2017-14975, CVE-2017-14977) It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.04 and 16.04. (CVE-2017-14926, CVE-2017-14928) Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9776)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3440-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9776, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14518, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14520, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14617, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14926, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14928, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14929, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14975, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14977

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7

    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
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
    0.24.5-2ubuntu4.6

    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