USN-4646-2

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2020-11-26 18:10 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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Summary
poppler regression
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USN-4646-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. The fix for CVE-2019-10871 introduced a regression causing certain applications linked against poppler to fail. This update backs out the fix pending further investigation.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of service.

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  "details": "USN-4646-1 fixed vulnerabilities in poppler. The fix for CVE-2019-10871\nintroduced a regression causing certain applications linked against poppler\nto fail. This update backs out the fix pending further investigation.\n\nWe apologize for the inconvenience.\n\nOriginal advisory details:\n\n It was discovered that Poppler incorrectly handled certain files. If a user\n or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an\n attacker could cause a denial of service.\n",
  "id": "USN-4646-2",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:58Z",
  "published": "2020-11-26T18:10:34Z",
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  "summary": "poppler regression",
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}



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