USN-4646-2

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    USN-4646-2

    Published: 26 Nov 2020Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: poppler regression

    Details: USN-4646-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. The fix for CVE-2019-10871 introduced a regression causing certain applications linked against poppler to fail. This update backs out the fix pending further investigation. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4646-2, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1905741

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: poppler

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High