[Secure-testing-team] Bug#867477: poppler: CVE-2017-9865 stack-based overflow leading to denial-of-service

[Antoine Beaupre]

Package: poppler
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org secure-testing-team at lists.alioth.debian.org
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-9865[0]:
| The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0
| allows remote 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.

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-2017-9865
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9865

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
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