Bug 1458701 (CVE-2017-9406) - CVE-2017-9406 poppler: Memory leak in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc
Summary: CVE-2017-9406 poppler: Memory leak in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-9406
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1458703
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-06-05 09:26 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-06-05 09:29:52 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-06-05 09:26:46 UTC 
A memory leak vulnerability was found in poppler in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-06-05 09:29:13 UTC 
Created poppler tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1458703]
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