Source: poppler
Version: 0.48.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-9406[0]:
| In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the
| function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial
| of service via a crafted file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9406
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9406
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100775
[2] 
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=278439531b13b0b047dbe3a75aa3f1b3407c8bd4

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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