CVE-2020-36024

Publication date 11 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
poppler	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.14+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.16+esm3 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6299-1
poppler vulnerabilities
17 August 2023