RHSA-2019:2022 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: poppler security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 6, 2019
Updated · June 27, 2026
Topic
An update for poppler, evince, and okular 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.
Description
Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince or Okular.
Security Fix(es):
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poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2019-7310)
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poppler: heap-based buffer overflow in function ImageStream::getLine() in Stream.cc (CVE-2019-9200)
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poppler: infinite recursion in Parser::getObj function in Parser.cc (CVE-2018-16646)
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poppler: memory leak in GfxColorSpace::setDisplayProfile in GfxState.cc (CVE-2018-18897)
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poppler: reachable abort in Object.h (CVE-2018-19058)
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poppler: out-of-bounds read in EmbFile::save2 in FileSpec.cc (CVE-2018-19059)
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poppler: pdfdetach utility does not validate save paths (CVE-2018-19060)
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poppler: NULL pointer dereference in _poppler_attachment_new (CVE-2018-19149)
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poppler: NULL pointer dereference in the XRef::getEntry in XRef.cc (CVE-2018-20481)
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poppler: reachable Object::dictLookup assertion in FileSpec class in FileSpec.cc (CVE-2018-20650)
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poppler: SIGABRT PDFDoc::setup class in PDFDoc.cc (CVE-2018-20662)
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poppler: heap-based buffer over-read in function downsample_row_box_filter in CairoRescaleBox.cc (CVE-2019-9631)
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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.