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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2021-1881-01 Moderate: Poppler DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An update for poppler and evince on Red Hat has been issued, fixing moderate security vulnerabilities and critical bugs. Users should apply it swiftly for system integrity and performance.
An update for poppler and evince is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.
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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423)
Security Fix(es):
* poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778)
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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat DoS threat moderate risk poppler evince

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27778 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: evince-3.28.4-11.el8.src.rpm poppler-20.11.0-2.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: evince-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-browser-plugin-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-browser-plugin-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-debugsource-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-libs-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-libs-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-nautilus-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm evince-nautilus-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-cpp-debuginfo-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-debuginfo-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-debugsource-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-glib-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-glib-debuginfo-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-qt5-debuginfo-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-utils-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm poppler-utils-debuginfo-20.11.0-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: evince-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evince-browser-plugin-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evince-browser-plugin-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evince-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evince-debugsource-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evince-libs-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm evince-libs-debuginfo-3.28.4-11.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1881-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1881
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for poppler and evince is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. 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 DoS threat moderate risk poppler evince

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1889793 - Handle reset form action

1900712 - CVE-2020-27778 poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS

1919423 - Ship evince-devel in CRB

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