Bug#876079: poppler: CVE-2017-14517

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.26.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream security
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102687

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-14517[0]:
| In Poppler 0.59.0, a NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the
| XRef::parseEntry() function in XRef.cc via a crafted PDF document.

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-2017-14517
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14517
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102687
[2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=476394e7a025e02e4897da2e765df2c895d0708f

Regards,
Salvatore