What is CVE-2017-14929?

CVE-2017-14929 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-09-30.

How severe is CVE-2017-14929?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2017-14929

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.

Published 2017-09-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler — versions 0.59.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-835 — Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

References

bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4097 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-14929?: CVE-2017-14929 is a high-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-09-30.
How severe is CVE-2017-14929?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.