[Secure-testing-team] Bug#864009: poppler: CVE-2017-9408: memory leak in Object::initArray

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.48.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-9408[0]:
| In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the
| function Object::initArray in Object.cc, which allows attackers to
| cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9408
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9408
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776
[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=b21b041f7948680c03109f0c404400a9dbc4544c

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore