Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Poppler 0.59.0: Gfx.cc Infinite Loop

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Poppler 0.59.0: Gfx.cc Infinite Loop

CVE-2017-14519 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

In Poppler 0.59.0, memory corruption occurs in a call to Object::streamGetChar in Object.h after a repeating series of Gfx::display, Gfx::go, Gfx::execOp, Gfx::opShowText, and Gfx::doShowText calls (aka a Gfx.cc infinite loop).

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