What is CVE-2017-9408?

CVE-2017-9408 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-2017-9408?

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

Vulnerability in Freedesktop Poppler

CVE-2017-9408

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

Published 2017-06-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.024 (83.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freedesktop Poppler — versions 0.54.0
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9408?: CVE-2017-9408 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-2017-9408?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.