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Ubuntu: USN-4646-1 (CVE-2020-27778): poppler vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4646-1 (CVE-2020-27778): poppler vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/25/2020
Created
12/01/2020
Added
11/27/2020
Modified
12/16/2020

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From USN-4646-1:

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler58
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpoppler73
  • ubuntu-upgrade-poppler-utils

References

  • USN-4646-1
  • CVE-2020-27778

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