| Name | CVE-2017-2820 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| poppler (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.26.5-2+deb8u16 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 0.48.0-2+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 0.48.0-2+deb9u6 | vulnerable |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 0.71.0-5+deb10u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 22.12.0-2 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 24.08.0-3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| poppler | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
Debian uses openjpeg for processing JPEG 2000 images, this advisory is
against Ubuntu, which disables openjpeg due to being in universe
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0321