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CVE-2017-9408

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Object::initArray in...

6.5 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

2.39%Up 1.4 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2017-9408
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-772
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2017-9408
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-18343 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2017-18343
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-3f2q-h2mg-2c86 6.5

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function Object::initArray in...

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.

Record
GHSA-3f2q-h2mg-2c86
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-772
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2017-9408
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-9408 6.5

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9408
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-9408 6.5

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9408
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0276 No score

Updated poppler packages fix security vulnerabilities

Jiaqi Peng discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2017-7511).

It was discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to hang, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2017-7515).

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when processing PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2017-9406, CVE-2017-9408).

Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, and Suleman Ali discovered that the poppler pdftocairo tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2017-9775).

Integer overflow leading to Heap buffer overflow in JBIG2Stream.cc in pdftocairo in Poppler allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document (CVE-2017-9776).

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler allows attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc (CVE-2017-9865).

Record
MGASA-2017-0276
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1998-1 No score

Security update for poppler

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2017-9775: Fix a stack overflow bug in pdftocairo that could have been exploited in a denial of service attack through a specially crafted PDF document. (bsc#1045719)
  • CVE-2017-9776: Fix an integer overflow bug that could have been exploited in a denial of service attack through a specially crafted PDF document. (bsc#1045721)
  • CVE-2017-9408: Fix a memory leak that occurred when the parser tried to recover from a broken input file. (bsc#1042802)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1998-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:1999-1 No score

Security update for poppler

This update for poppler fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2017-9775: DoS stack buffer overflow in GfxState.cc in pdftocairo via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1045719)
  • CVE-2017-9776: DoS integer overflow leading to heap buffer overflow in JBIG2Stream.cc via a crafted PDF document (bsc#1045721)
  • CVE-2017-7515: Stack exhaustion due to infinite recursive call in pdfunite (bsc#1043088)
  • CVE-2017-7511: Null pointer dereference in pdfunite via crafted documents (bsc#1041783)
  • CVE-2017-9406: Memory leak in the gmalloc function in gmem.cc (bsc#1042803)
  • CVE-2017-9408: Memory leak in the Object::initArray function (bsc#1042802)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:1999-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3350-1 No score

poppler vulnerabilities

Aleksandar Nikolic discovered that poppler incorrectly handled JPEG 2000 images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2017-2820)

Jiaqi Peng discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7511)

It was discovered that the poppler pdfunite tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7515)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled JPEG 2000 images. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9083)

It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled memory when processing PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9406, CVE-2017-9408)

Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca, and Suleman Ali discovered that the poppler pdftocairo tool incorrectly parsed certain malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause poppler to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-9775)

Record
USN-3350-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
poppler
Debian:12
before 0.57.0-2
0.57.0-2
poppler
Debian:13
before 0.57.0-2
0.57.0-2
poppler
Debian:14
before 0.57.0-2
0.57.0-2
poppler
Debian:8
before 0.26.5-2+deb8u2, plus listed versions
0.26.5-20.26.5-2+deb8u10.26.5-2+deb8u1~bpo70+1
0.26.5-2+deb8u2
poppler
Debian:9
before 0.48.0-2+deb9u1, plus listed versions
0.48.0-2
0.48.0-2+deb9u1
poppler
Mageia:5
before 0.26.5-2.3.mga5
0.26.5-2.3.mga5
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 0.24.4-14.6.1
0.24.4-14.6.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 0.24.4-14.6.1
0.24.4-14.6.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 0.24.4-14.6.1
0.24.4-14.6.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 0.24.4-14.6.1
0.24.4-14.6.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 0.24.4-14.6.1
0.24.4-14.6.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler-qt
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 0.43.0-16.5.1
0.43.0-16.5.1
poppler
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5, plus listed versions
0.24.1-0ubuntu10.24.3-0ubuntu10.24.3-0ubuntu20.24.3-0ubuntu30.24.3-0ubuntu4
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0.24.3-0ubuntu50.24.3-0ubuntu60.24.3-0ubuntu70.24.3-0ubuntu80.24.3-0ubuntu100.24.3-0ubuntu120.24.5-0ubuntu30.24.5-2ubuntu10.24.5-2ubuntu20.24.5-2ubuntu40.24.5-2ubuntu4.10.24.5-2ubuntu4.20.24.5-2ubuntu4.30.24.5-2ubuntu4.4
0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
poppler
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2, plus listed versions
0.33.0-0ubuntu30.37.0-0ubuntu10.38.0-0ubuntu10.41.0-0ubuntu10.41.0-0ubuntu1.1
0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-9408 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Freedesktop Poppler, published June 2, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.39%, the 83rd percentile. Fixed in poppler 0.57.0-2.

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