{"id":"ALSA-2021:1881","summary":"Moderate: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update","details":"Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423)\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778)\n\nFor 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.\n\nAdditional Changes:\n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.","modified":"2026-01-30T01:31:59.546345Z","published":"2021-05-18T06:18:48Z","related":["CVE-2020-27778"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-27778"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"evince-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/evince-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.28.4-11.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler-cpp","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-cpp"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.0-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler-cpp-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-cpp-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.0-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.0-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler-glib-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-glib-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.0-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler-qt5","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-qt5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.0-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler-qt5-devel","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-qt5-devel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.0-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2021:1881.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}