Topic: An update for poppler and evince is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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.

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Details: 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. Security Fix(es): * poppler: integer overflow in Parser::makeStream in Parser.cc (CVE-2018-21009) * poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function PSOutputDev::checkPageSlice in PSOutputDev.cc (CVE-2019-10871) * poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in JPXStream::init in JPEG2000Stream.cc (CVE-2019-12293) * poppler: integer overflow in JPXStream::init function leading to memory consumption (CVE-2019-9959) * evince: uninitialized memory use in function tiff_document_render() and tiff_document_get_thumbnail() (CVE-2019-11459) 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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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