{"id":"RLSA-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 Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.","modified":"2026-03-11T05:59:02.525690Z","published":"2021-05-18T06:18:48Z","upstream":["CVE-2020-27778"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1881"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889793"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919423"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"evince","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/evince?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:3.28.4-11.el8"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2021:1881.json"}},{"package":{"name":"poppler","ecosystem":"Rocky Linux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/poppler?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0:20.11.0-2.el8"}],"database_specific":{"yum_repository":"AppStream"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2021:1881.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}],"credits":[{"name":"Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation"},{"name":"Red Hat"}]}