Bug 1500345 – CVE-2017-14976 poppler: Heap-based buffer over-read in the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function

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Bug 1500345 - (CVE-2017-14976) CVE-2017-14976 poppler: Heap-based buffer over-read in the FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function

Summary:	CVE-2017-14976 poppler: Heap-based buffer over-read in the FoFiType1C::conver...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2017-14976

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Depends On:	1499168 1499169
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Reported:	2017-10-10 08:29 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified:	2018-09-30 17:34 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 08:29:18 EDT

The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability if an out-of-bounds font dictionary index is encountered, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Upstream issue:

https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102724

Upstream patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=da63c35549e8852a410946ab016a3f25ac701bdf

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-10 08:32:21 EDT

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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