Bug#877237: poppler: CVE-2017-14927

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: poppler
Version: 0.57.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch security
Forwarded: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102604

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for poppler.

CVE-2017-14927[0]:
| In Poppler 0.59.0, a NULL Pointer Dereference exists in the
| SplashOutputDev::type3D0() function in SplashOutputDev.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-2017-14927
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14927
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102604

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore