Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
Medium ALSA-2024:2979 1 CVE

Moderate: poppler security update

Published May 22, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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

Security Fix(es):

* poppler: NULL pointer dereference in `FoFiType1C::convertToType1` (CVE-2020-36024)

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 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-cpp 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-cpp-devel 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-devel 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-glib 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-glib-devel 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-glib-doc 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-qt5 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-qt5-devel 20.11.0-11.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 poppler-utils 20.11.0-11.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36024
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2231520
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-2979.html