Summary
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.
Fixed packages 7
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 8 | evince-devel | 3.28.4-11.el8 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | poppler-cpp | 20.11.0-2.el8 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | poppler-cpp-devel | 20.11.0-2.el8 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | poppler-devel | 20.11.0-2.el8 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | poppler-glib-devel | 20.11.0-2.el8 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | poppler-qt5 | 20.11.0-2.el8 |
| AlmaLinux · 8 | poppler-qt5-devel | 20.11.0-2.el8 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Unscored —
A flaw was found in Poppler in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML. A remote attacker could exploit this…
References
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report
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-27778