UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27778

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27778

    Published: 25 Nov 2020Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-27778
    Aliases:
    USN-4646-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27778, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4646-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27778

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.41.0-0ubuntu1.15

    Affected versions

    0.33.0-0ubuntu3

    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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