Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting poppler package, versions [,0.76.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POPPLER-2372033
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Dec 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Dec 2020

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

How to fix?

Upgrade poppler to version 0.76.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer. 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.

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