A heap-buffer overflow was found in the poppler library. An attacker could create a malicious PDF file that would cause applications that use poppler (such as Evince) to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when opened.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | poppler | 2016-11-18 12:30 | ALAS-2016-769 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |