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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-20551: Moderate: poppler security update (CESA-2019:2713)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-20551: Moderate: poppler security update (CESA-2019:2713)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/28/2018
Created
09/13/2019
Added
09/12/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

A reachable Object::getString assertion in Poppler 0.72.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service due to construction of invalid rich media annotation assets in the AnnotRichMedia class in Annot.c.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-poppler
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-cpp-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-glib
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-glib-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-qt5-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-utils
  • centos-upgrade-poppler-utils-debuginfo

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