CVE-2020-27778 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2020-27778 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 0.28% · 51.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.28%

51.5th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS	poppler	0, 0.57.0-2ubuntu4, 0.57.0-2ubuntu5
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	poppler	0.41.0-0ubuntu1.11, 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.12, 0

Timeline

Nov 25, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27778 third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4646-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27778 third-party-advisory

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