NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libpoppler-devel package, versions <0.62.0-150000.4.25.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBPOPPLERDEVEL-5936311
  • published6 Oct 2023
  • disclosed5 Oct 2023

Introduced: 5 Oct 2023

CVE-2020-36024  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libpoppler-devel to version 0.62.0-150000.4.25.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpoppler-devel package and not the libpoppler-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function.

CVSS Scores

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