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CVE-2017-7515

Published: 6 June 2017

poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
possibly only affects CLI tool, so may not have any security
impact.

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
poppler
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
trusty
Released (0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2)
yakkety
Released (0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1)
zesty
Released (0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/poppler/PDFDoc.cc?id=771c82623e8e1e0c92b8ca6f7c2b8a81ccbb60d3

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H