Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting poppler-demos package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-POPPLERDEMOS-2011190
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed22 Mar 2019

Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

CVE-2020-27778  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 poppler-demos.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-demos package and not the poppler-demos package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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