RLSA-2021:1881

Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2021:1881.json
Related
Published
2021-05-18T06:18:48Z
Modified
2023-02-02T14:10:35.626045Z
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 Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / evince

Package

Name
evince

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0The exact introduced commit is unknown
Fixed
0:3.28.4-11.el8

Rocky Linux:8 / poppler

Package

Name
poppler

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0The exact introduced commit is unknown
Fixed
0:20.11.0-2.el8