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

Show unmaintained releases

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

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

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