High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 3, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-27778
CVE-2020-27778
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.
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Affected products
29- osv-coords25 versionspkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/almalinux/evince-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-glib-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-qt5pkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-qt5-develpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/poppler-qt&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-cpppkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-cpp-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/poppler-develpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/poppler&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/opensuse/poppler&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3
< 0.43.0-16.19.3+ 24 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 3.28.4-11.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 20.11.0-2.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 20.11.0-2.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 20.11.0-2.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 20.11.0-2.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 20.11.0-2.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 20.11.0-2.el8
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.43.0-16.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.62.0-4.6.1
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
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