| Name | CVE-2020-27778 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3120-1, ELA-689-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| poppler (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.26.5-2+deb8u16 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 0.48.0-2+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 0.48.0-2+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 0.71.0-5+deb10u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 22.12.0-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 24.08.0-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - poppler <postponed> (Minor issue; maybe worth fixing later)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/742
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/30c731b487190c02afff3f036736a392eb60cd9a (poppler-0.76.0)