Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Poppler - CVE-2020-27778

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Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Poppler - CVE-2020-27778

Published: October 31, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82603
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-27778
CWE-ID: CWE-824
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Poppler
Software vendor:
Freedesktop.org

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to crash the application.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when converting PDF files to HTML. A remote attacker can trick the victim to convert a specially crafted file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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