Improper Initialization The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package poppler (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit maturity not defined.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-POPPLER-635666
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed3 Sept 2020
Introduced: 3 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-24996 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream poppler package and not the poppler package as distributed by Ubuntu.
There is an invalid memory access in the function TextString::~TextString() located in Catalog.cc in Xpdf 4.0.2. It can be triggered by (for example) sending a crafted pdf file to the pdftohtml binary, which allows a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.