PT-2023-5943 · Poppler+10 · Poppler+10

Published 2023-08-11 · Updated 2025-11-07 · CVE-2020-36024

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions poppler version 20.12.1

Description The issue is related to the FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function in the poppler library for rendering PDF files. It is associated with uncontrolled recursion, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted .pdf file.

Recommendations For poppler version 20.12.1, consider disabling the FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Improper Resource Release

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

CWE-404

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2024:2979

ALT-PU-2025-9424

BDU:2023-06640

CESA-2024_2979

CVE-2020-36024

DLA-3528-1

DLA-4141-1

INFSA-2024_2979

MGASA-2023-0262

OESA-2025-2620

OESA-2025-2621

OESA-2025-2622

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_3983-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2023_3998-1

RHSA-2024:2979

RHSA-2024_2979

SUSE-SU-2023:3981-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3982-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1

SUSE-SU-2023:3998-1

USN-6299-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Almalinux

Astra Linux

Centos

Debian

Linuxmint

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Poppler

References · 111

• 🔥 https://github.com/zmanion/Vulnerabilities/blob/main/CVE-2022-38171.md · Exploit
• 🔥 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2025-2622 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/astra-linux-se47-bulletin-2024-0416SE47 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2023:3983-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/poppler · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-2979.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:2979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-36023 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-05860 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-4141-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wiki.astralinux.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=283904092 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36024 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0262.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36024 · Vendor Advisory