PT-2019-6286 · Poppler+7 · Poppler+7

Michael Kaplan · Published 2019-03-22 · Updated 2022-09-28 · CVE-2020-27778

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Poppler (affected versions not specified)

Description A flaw was found in the way certain PDF files were converted into HTML, allowing a remote attacker to 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. The vulnerability is related to access to an uninitialized pointer, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a malicious PDF file.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-824

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2021:1881

BDU:2022-06888

CESA-2021_1881

CVE-2020-27778

DLA-3120-1

MGASA-2020-0445

OESA-2021-1378

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2021_3854-1

RHSA-2021:1881

RHSA-2021_1881

RLSA-2021:1881

SUSE-SU-2021:3854-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1723-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1724-1

SUSE-SU-2022_1723-1

SUSE-SU-2022_1724-1

USN-4646-1

USN-4646-2

Affected Products

Almalinux

Astra Linux

Centos

Poppler

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 174

• 🔥 https://github.com/zmanion/Vulnerabilities/blob/main/CVE-2022-38171.md · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-05993 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-01318 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19058 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4646-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27778 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27778 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27778 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=229283790 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20650 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03434 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-06881 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-03454 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27778 · Security Note