Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14929

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14929.

CWE Category CWE-835

Published Date Sep 30, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14929: In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::dictLookup() in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opFill, Gfx::doPatternFill, Gfx::doTilingPatternFill and Gfx::drawForm calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop), a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14519.

Impacted Vendors

poppler 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102969 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102969 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns