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CVE-2017-14520 json

In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when ha…

published 2017-09-17 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-6021

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential attack when handling malicious PDF files.

Patch / fix

  • poppler Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.61.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14520

  • poppler Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7
  • poppler Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14520

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
  • poppler SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +2 more 0.24.4-14.13.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1SUSE-SU-2017:2952-1

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-2017-14520 updated cvss 3.3

poppler: Floating point exception in Splash::scaleImageYuXd() function in Splash.cc

  • 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 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

1.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.freedesktop.org https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102719 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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