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CVE-2017-14520

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Date: September 17, 2017

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.

Language: C++

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (6)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14520

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14520

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-14520

Url: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102719

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-14520

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version poppler-0.60

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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