Description
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.
Published: 2020-12-03
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3120-1 poppler security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-20282 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4646-1 poppler vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
Freedesktop Poppler
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:42.413Z

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-27778

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-03T17:15:13.097

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:21:49.083

Link: CVE-2020-27778

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-27778 - Bugzilla

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