Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-15565

Title: Freedesktop Poppler Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-15565.

CWE Category CWE-476

Published Date Oct 17, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-15565: In Poppler 0.59.0, a NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the GfxImageColorMap::getGrayLine() function in GfxState.cc via a crafted PDF document.

Impacted Vendors

poppler 1

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103016 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103016 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00023.html https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns