[Secure-testing-team] Bug#876081: poppler: CVE-2017-14520

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.26.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch security
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102719

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-14520[0]:
| In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in
| Splash::scaleImageYuXd() in Splash.cc, which may lead to a potential
| attack when handling malicious PDF files.

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-2017-14520
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14520
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102719
[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=504b3590182175390f474657a372e78fb1508262

Regards,
Salvatore