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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2017-9865 json

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based b…

published 2017-06-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18775

cvss
5.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

Patch / fix

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

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9865

  • poppler Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.14

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9865

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 SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 0.43.0-16.15.1
  • poppler-qt SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP3, SLED 12 SP3 +1 more 0.43.0-16.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1

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-2017-9865 updated cvss 3.3

poppler: Buffer over-read in the GfxImageColorMap::getGray function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-qt4, poppler-glib, poppler-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-cpp, poppler-glib, poppler-demos, poppler-utils
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

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Sources

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