CVE-2017-15565

Publication date 17 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

In Poppler 0.59.0, a NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the GfxImageColorMap::getGrayLine() function in GfxState.cc via a crafted PDF document.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	17.10 artful	Fixed 0.57.0-2ubuntu4.1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.8

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Other: ?id=19e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3467-1
poppler vulnerability
30 October 2017

Other references