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medium 6.5

CVE-2017-9775 json

Stack buffer overflow in GfxState.cc in pdftocairo in Poppler before 0.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application…

published 2017-06-22 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18705

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.3%
EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.57.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9775

  • poppler Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
  • poppler Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9775

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • poppler RHEL 7 0.26.5-17.el7_4
  • poppler-qt RHEL 7 0.26.5-17.el7_4
  • poppler-cpp RHEL 7 0.26.5-17.el7_4
  • poppler-glib RHEL 7 0.26.5-17.el7_4
  • poppler-demos RHEL 7 0.26.5-17.el7_4
  • poppler-utils RHEL 7 0.26.5-17.el7_4

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2551

  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 0.43.0-16.5.1
  • poppler-qt SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 0.43.0-16.5.1
  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 0.24.4-14.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1999-1SUSE-SU-2017:1998-1

  • poppler Arch Linux 0.56.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-326

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-9775 updated cvss 5.3

poppler: Stack-buffer overflow in GfxState.cc

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) poppler 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-qt 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-glib 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-utils 0.26.5-17.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) poppler-cpp 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-demos 0.26.5-17.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) poppler 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-qt 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-utils 0.26.5-17.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) poppler-cpp 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-glib 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-demos 0.26.5-17.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) poppler 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-qt 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-glib 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-utils 0.26.5-17.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) poppler-qt 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-cpp 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-demos 0.26.5-17.el7_4
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) poppler 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-qt 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-glib 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-utils 0.26.5-17.el7_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) poppler-cpp 0.26.5-17.el7_4, poppler-demos 0.26.5-17.el7_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2551
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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