CVE-2017-9775

medium
Published 2017-06-22 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Stack buffer overflow in GfxState.cc in pdftocairo in Poppler before 0.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PDF document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.56.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed0.57.0-2
debian debianbullseyefixed0.57.0-2
debian debianforkyfixed0.57.0-2
debian debiansidfixed0.57.0-2
debian debiantrixiefixed0.57.0-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freedesktoppoppler{"endIncluding":"0.55.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.