CVE-2020-27778

Summary

CVECVE-2020-27778
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-03 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-28 20:36:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by providing a malicious PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftohtml' program, would crash the application causing a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-824

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler All All All All
Application Freedesktop Poppler All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1900712 – (CVE-2020-27778) CVE-2020-27778 poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 3120-1] poppler security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159225 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler and evince (ELSA-2021-1881)
  • 181075 Debian Security Update for poppler (DLA 3120-1)
  • 239291 Red Hat Update for poppler and evince (RHSA-2021:1881)
  • 500527 Alpine Linux Security Update for poppler
  • 504294 Alpine Linux Security Update for poppler
  • 671283 EulerOS Security Update for poppler (EulerOS-SA-2022-1232)
  • 671316 EulerOS Security Update for poppler (EulerOS-SA-2022-1213)
  • 671853 EulerOS Security Update for poppler (EulerOS-SA-2022-1910)
  • 672246 EulerOS Security Update for poppler (EulerOS-SA-2022-2630)
  • 751420 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1)
  • 751427 OpenSUSE Security Update for poppler (openSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1)
  • 752145 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2022:1723-1)
  • 752148 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for poppler (SUSE-SU-2022:1724-1)
  • 940014 AlmaLinux Security Update for poppler and evince (ALSA-2021:1881)
  • 960741 Rocky Linux Security Update for poppler and evince (RLSA-2021:1881)
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