CVE-2017-18267: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 17.10 only; version 18.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: up to and including 0.64.0
• Red Hat Ansible Tower: version 3.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.