{"id":"CVE-2017-9865","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-9865","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:51:06.481Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2017-06-25T13:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:29:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["freedesktop/poppler","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01677,"percentile":0.76768,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.03022,"percentile":0.86817},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.01677,"percentile":0.75863}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/06/popplerstack-buffer-overflow-in.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100774","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-17","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4042-1/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4079","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9865","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}