CVE-2017-14977: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The FoFiTrueType::getCFFBlock function in FoFiTrueType.cc in Poppler 0.59.0 has a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability due to lack of validation of a table pointer, which allows an attacker to launch a denial of service attack.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.59.0 only

Published 2017-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.