CVE-2017-9083: Freedesktop Poppler

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perf_test utility will crash (segmentation fault) when parsing an invalid PDF file.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.54.0 only

Published 2017-05-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.