Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting poppler-qt5 package, versions <0:20.11.0-2.el8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-POPPLERQT5-4046910
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 22 Mar 2019
Introduced: 22 Mar 2019
CVE-2020-27778 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 poppler-qt5 to version 0:20.11.0-2.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1881.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler-qt5 package and not the poppler-qt5 package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 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.