ALSA-2021:1881

Source

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-1881.html

Import Source

https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json

Related

• CVE-2020-27778

Published

2021-05-18T06:18:48Z

Modified

2021-08-11T08:54:00Z

Summary

Moderate: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Details

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

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423)

Security Fix(es):

• poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778)

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.

References

• https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-27778