CVE-2017-9083

Publication date 19 May 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
luatex 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
poppler 19.04 disco
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
17.10 artful
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu3
17.04 zesty
Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5
texlive-bin 19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

I didn't inspect texlive-bin or luatex closely since I didn't spot a patch quickly

mdeslaur

while Debian uses openjpeg, Ubuntu uses the internal JPX decoder texlive-bin is built with --with-system-poppler and --with-system-xpdf, so embedded code copy isn't used.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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