CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-9083.md

CVE-2017-9083

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
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

Github

• https://github.com/lucasduffey/findings