Evince poppler denial of service vulnerability

Evince is the GNOME desktop environment of a PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI document viewer . poppler is one of the C++ class library for generating PDF. Evince and other products used in the poppler 0.54.0 version of the JPXStream.cc file of the 'JPXStream::readUByte' function has a securit...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9083

poppler 0.54.0, as used in Evince and other products, has a NULL pointer dereference in the JPXStream::readUByte function in JPXStream.cc. For example, the perftest utility will crash segmentation fault when parsing an invalid PDF file...