CVE-2017-7515

Publication date 6 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.

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Status

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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

sbeattie

possibly only affects CLI tool, so may not have any security impact.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
poppler	Upstream: poppler

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3350-1
poppler vulnerabilities
7 July 2017

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7515

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