RLSA-2021:1881

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    RLSA-2021:1881

    Published: 18 May 2021Last Modified: 5 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-27778

    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. The 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. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423) Security Fix(es): * poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778) For 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. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

    References: https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:1881, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889793, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900712, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919423

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: evince

    Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/evince?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0:3.28.4-11.el8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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