[Secure-testing-team] Bug#865680: poppler: CVE-2017-9775: stack buffer overflow in GfxState.cc

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.26.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream security
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101540

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-9775[0]:
| Stack buffer overflow in GfxState.cc in pdftocairo in Poppler before
| 0.56 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application
| crash) via a crafted PDF document.

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-2017-9775
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9775
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101540
[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=8f4ff8243a3d599ff2a6c08b1da389e606ba4fc9

>From the analysis in the bug and looking back to the source in jessie,
I think all of those are affected, but please double check and confirm
please.

Regards,
Salvatore