Bug 1500344 (CVE-2017-14977) - CVE-2017-14977 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function
Summary: CVE-2017-14977 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the FoFiTrueType::getCFFB...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14977
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1499168 1499169
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-10-10 12:28 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:28:25 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 12:28:15 UTC 
The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 12:32:35 UTC 
Created mingw-poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1499169]


Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1499168]
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