CVE-2017-14929

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-14929 · Published 30/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-14929 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting poppler (freedesktop).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
poppler freedesktop	`= 0.59.0`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking
debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

poppler

freedesktop

= 0.59.0

No fix yet

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