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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2020-27778) ELSA-2021-1881: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2020-27778) ELSA-2021-1881: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/25/2020
Created
05/29/2021
Added
05/26/2021
Modified
05/26/2021

Description

A 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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-evince
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-evince-browser-plugin
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-evince-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-evince-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-evince-nautilus
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-cpp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-cpp-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-glib
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-glib-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-qt5
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-qt5-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • ELSA-2021-1881
  • CVE-2020-27778
  • USN-4646-1

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