CVE-2017-9406: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Poppler 0.54.0, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function gmalloc in gmem.cc, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Freedesktop Poppler: version 0.54.0 only

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