CVE-2017-1000456

poppler: Invalid read in TextPool::addWord() causes crash and can lead to overflow in subsequent calculations

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · October 5, 2017

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read