Bug 1466442 (CVE-2017-9775)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9775 poppler: Stack-buffer overflow in GfxState.cc
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	caolanm, cperry, feborges, manisandro, mkasik, psampaio, rasanche, rdieter
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when opened.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2017-08-31 14:05:13 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1459067, 1459068, 1483504, 1483505
Bug Blocks:	1479824

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-06-29 15:34:35 UTC

Poppler has a stack-based buffer overflow in GfxState.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PDF document.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101540

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=8f4ff8243a3d599ff2a6c08b1da389e606ba4fc9

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-06-29 15:39:04 UTC

Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1459068]


Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1459067]

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-30 14:08:55 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2551 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2551