7.5

CVE-2017-14929: freedesktop poppler Infinite Loop

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-14929DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14929
Published 29-09-2017Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14929 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Infinite Loop vulnerability in freedesktop poppler. EPSS estimates a 1.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.38%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 1
MGASA-2017-0378USN-3440-1

Timeline

  1. 29-09-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::dictLookup() in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opFill, Gfx::doPatternFill, Gfx::doTilingPatternFill and Gfx::drawForm calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop), a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14519.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.38%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

72%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.38% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.38%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • poppler< 0.61.1-2
Freedesktop1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • poppler< 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.7 | < 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.4

3 vendors · 3 products

References

6 links