Bug 2231520 (CVE-2020-36024)

Summary:	CVE-2020-36024 poppler: NULL pointer dereference in `FoFiType1C::convertToType1`
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Bug Depends On:	2231521, 2231522, 2231523, 2231524, 2231525, 2231526, 2231527
Bug Blocks:	2231528

Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-08-11 18:30:52 UTC

An issue was discovered in freedesktop poppler version 20.12.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via crafted .pdf file to FoFiType1C::convertToType1 function.

References:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1016

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2024-05-22 09:24:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:2979 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2979