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SUSE: CVE-2020-27778: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/25/2020
Created
02/10/2022
Added
12/02/2021
Modified
12/02/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-cpp0
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-glib-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler-glib8
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler73
  • suse-upgrade-libpoppler73-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-poppler-tools
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-poppler-0_18

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