CVE-2017-9865

5.5 mediumEPSS 1.7%

Medium (5.5). EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-06-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
freedesktop:poppler

References

http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

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