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CVE-2017-9083

poppler: Null pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 18, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference