High
Security advisory
freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-1000456
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
freedesktop.org libpoppler 0.60.1 fails to validate boundaries in TextPool::addWord, leading to overflow in subsequent calculations.
osv:CVE-2017-1000456
Complete source record
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