Bug 1458702 (CVE-2017-9408)

Summary: CVE-2017-9408 poppler: Memory leak in the Object::initArray function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: caolanm, feborges, mkasik, rdieter
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-06-05 09:28:33 UTC
A memory leak vulnerability was found in poppler in the function Object::initArray in Object.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-06-05 09:29:25 UTC
Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1458703]