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CVE-2017-9083 json

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc.

published 2017-05-19 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18022

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

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

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9083

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 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2, SLES 12 SP2 +1 more 0.24.4-14.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1672-1

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-2017-9083 updated cvss 3.3

poppler: Null pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 evince, poppler Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 evince, poppler, evince-dvi, poppler-qt, evince-libs, poppler-qt4, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 evince, poppler, evince-dvi, poppler-qt, evince-libs, poppler-cpp, +9 more
    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

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.freedesktop.org https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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

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Sources

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