RHSA-2021:1881: Red Hat Security Advisory: poppler and evince security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for poppler and evince is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2020-27778: poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS