CVE-2017-2820

Publication date 7 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	17.04 zesty	Fixed 0.48.0-2ubuntu2.1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 0.44.0-3ubuntu2.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.5

Notes

mdeslaur

contrary to Debian, Ubuntu uses the internal JPEG 2000 library as openjpeg has not been approved for main inclusion

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3350-1
poppler vulnerabilities
7 July 2017