### [CVE-2017-9083](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9083)
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### Description

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

#### Github
- https://github.com/lucasduffey/findings