[Secure-testing-team] Bug#876385: poppler: CVE-2017-14617: Floating point exception in Stream.cc ImageStream::ImageStream()

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.57.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102854

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-14617[0]:
| In Poppler 0.59.0, a floating point exception occurs in the ImageStream
| class in Stream.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-2017-14617
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14617
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102854
[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=939465c40902d72e0c05d4f3a27ee67e4a007ed7

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore