An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library. External References: https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0321
As per upstream advisory: "Poppler is a popular open source PDF parser library. It is used by default in many open source PDF viewers. The library itself implements a decoder for JPEG 2000 encoded images instead of relying on a more complete implementation (such as OpenJPEG), although it does warn about this at compile time and strongly suggests OpenJPEG be used. By default, this internal implementation will be used by applications. " However the versions of poppler library shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora use the system libopenjpeg library, therefore they are not affected by this flaw.