CVE-2017-9775 is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the pdftocairo component of Poppler versions prior to 0.56, impacting Debian, Freedesktop, and Red Hat distributions. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered remotely by an unauthenticated attacker through a crafted PDF document, leading to a denial of service (application crash). While the attack complexity is low, it requires user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.55.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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