Vulnerability CVE-2020-27778


Published: 2020-12-03

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.

Type:

CWE-824

(Access of Uninitialized Pointer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Freedesktop -> Poppler 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712

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