alsa-2021:1881
Vulnerability from osv_almalinux
Published
2021-05-18 06:18
Modified
2021-08-11 08:54
Summary
Moderate: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Details

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423)

Security Fix(es):

  • poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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  "details": "Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.\n\nThe evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.\n\nThe following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423)\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.\n\nAdditional Changes:\n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.",
  "id": "ALSA-2021:1881",
  "modified": "2021-08-11T08:54:00Z",
  "published": "2021-05-18T06:18:48Z",
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    }
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  "related": [
    "CVE-2020-27778"
  ],
  "summary": "Moderate: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update"
}


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