Source: poppler Version: 0.57.0-2 Severity: important Tags: patch security upstream Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for poppler. CVE-2017-14977[0]: | The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler | 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of | validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a | denial of service attack. 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-2017-14977 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14977 [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103045 [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=19eedc6fb693a62f305e13079501e3105f869f3c Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore _______________________________________________ Secure-testing-team mailing list Secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/secure-testing-team
