[Secure-testing-team] Bug#863016: poppler: CVE-2017-9083

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.26.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-9083[0]:
| 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.

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-2017-9083
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9083
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101084

Regards,
Salvatore