What is CVE-2017-9406?

CVE-2017-9406 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-9406?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2017-9406

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

EPSS: 0.010 (77.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler — versions 0.54.0
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9406?: CVE-2017-9406 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-9406?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.