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CVE-2020-35702

poppler: heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted PDF document

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

8.1

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 20, 2020

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in poppler. This flaw allows a remote attacker to provide a specially crafted PDF file that, when processed by the 'pdftops' program, leads to a crash or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Statement

The versions of poppler as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not affected by this flaw, as the vulnerable code was introduced in a newer version of the package.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write