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Mageia 7: 2020-0450 Critical: Poppler Memory Leak DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0450 resolves a memory leak in libx11 to mitigate a potential security vulnerability. Discover additional details regarding the patch.
buffer overflow in pdftohtml could result in a DoS (CVE-2020-27778)

Summary

buffer overflow in pdftohtml could result in a DoS (CVE-2020-27778).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27687

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4646-1

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27778

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow critical software update DoS poppler Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/poppler-0.74.0-3.4.mga7

Severity
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Publication date: 03 Dec 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0445.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-27778

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow critical software update DoS poppler Mageia

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