RHSA-2020:1074 — Security Advisory

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.

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.