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CVE-2017-2820
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-12T17:29:00.530 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:16:55.790

Summary

An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG 2000 image parsing functionality of freedesktop.org Poppler 0.53.0. A specially crafted PDF file can lead to an integer overflow causing out of bounds memory overwrite on the heap resulting in potential arbitrary code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, a victim must open the malicious PDF in an application using this library.

Affected products

freedesktop — poppler

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References

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