CVE-2017-9865: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The function GfxImageColorMap::getGray in GfxState.cc in Poppler 0.54.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted PDF document, related to missing color-map validation in ImageOutputDev.cc.

Affected products

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

Published 2017-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.