Source: poppler Version: 0.57.0-2 Severity: important Tags: patch security upstream Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102653
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for poppler. CVE-2017-14975[0]: | The FoFiType1C::convertToType0 function in FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler | 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability because a data | structure is not initialized, which allows an attacker to launch a | denial of service attack. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14975 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14975 [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102653 [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=a5e5649ecf16fa05770620dbbd4985935dc2bbff Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
