Bug 1458701 (CVE-2017-9406)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9406 poppler: Memory leak in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	caolanm, feborges, mkasik, rdieter
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-06-05 09:26:46 UTC

A memory leak vulnerability was found in poppler in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-06-05 09:29:13 UTC

Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1458703]