CVE-2017-1000456 - poppler: Invalid read in TextPool::addWord() causes crash and can lead to overflow in subsequent calculations

HIGH

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

Published Jan 2, 2018

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.97%

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

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	poppler	Will not fix	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	poppler	Will not fix	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	poppler	Will not fix	n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	poppler	Not affected	n/a

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

Link	Providers	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000456		Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103116		x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531382		Issue Tracking
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00001.html		mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000456
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000456
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory