Description
poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.
Published: 2017-05-19
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18022 poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3350-1 poppler vulnerabilities
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00717}

epss

{'score': 0.00721}


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Freedesktop Poppler
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T16:55:22.087Z

Reserved: 2017-05-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9083

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-19T16:29:00.197

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-9083

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-05-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9083 - Bugzilla

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