Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Poppler - CVE-2020-27778
Published: October 31, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU82603
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
Vendor: Freedesktop.org
Affected software:
Poppler
Poppler
Detailed vulnerability 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2020-27778
Install updates from vendor's website.