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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-3977-01 Low: Evince And Poppler Security Update

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New security patch released for Evince and Poppler in Red Hat. Minor risk mitigated from vulnerabilities. Urgent response recommended.
An update for evince and poppler is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The evince packages provide a simple multi-page document viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files, and, with additional back-ends, also the Device Independent File format (DVI) files.
Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
Security Fix(es):
* poppler: divide-by-zero in function SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill in SplashOutputDev.cc (CVE-2019-14494)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity document viewer pdf rendering poppler update evince update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14494 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: evince-3.28.2-10.el7.src.rpm poppler-0.26.5-43.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: evince-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm evince-debuginfo-3.28.2-10.el7.i686.rpm evince-debuginfo-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm evince-dvi-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm evince-libs-3.28.2-10.el7.i686.rpm evince-libs-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm evince-nautilus-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-glib-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-glib-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-qt-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-qt-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-utils-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: evince-browser-plugin-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm evince-debuginfo-3.28.2-10.el7.i686.rpm evince-debuginfo-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm evince-devel-3.28.2-10.el7.i686.rpm evince-devel-3.28.2-10.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-cpp-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-cpp-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-cpp-devel-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-cpp-devel-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm poppler-debuginfo-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-demos-0.26.5-43.el7.x86_64.rpm poppler-devel-0.26.5-43.el7.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3977-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3977
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for evince and poppler is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity document viewer pdf rendering poppler update evince update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1610436 - Gtk-CRITICALs when scrolling in thumbnails bar in large file

1797453 - CVE-2019-14494 poppler: divide-by-zero in function SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill in SplashOutputDev.cc

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