# CVE-2020-27778: evince-devel: Poppler is a Portable Document Format (PDF) rendering library, used by applications such as Evince. The evince packa... CVE-2020-27778 is fixed in 19 products on 1 platform, first by gir1.2-poppler-0.18 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11, released November 24, 2020. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High. - Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-27778 - Priority: High - CVSS: 7.5 (Moderate) - EPSS: 0.0220 - CISA KEV: not listed - Exploited (vendor report): no - Publicly disclosed: no - Published: Nov 24, 2020 ## Description 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. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: poppler (20.11.0). (BZ#1644423) Security Fix(es): * poppler: pdftohtml: access to uninitialized pointer could lead to DoS (CVE-2020-27778) 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 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section. ## Where it's fixed | Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released | |---|---|---|---|---| | Linux | evince RHEL 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | evince ol 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | evince-browser-plugin RHEL 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | evince-browser-plugin ol 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | evince-devel RHEL 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | evince-devel ol 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | evince-libs RHEL 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | evince-libs ol 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | evince-nautilus RHEL 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | evince-nautilus ol 8 | 0:3.28.4-11.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | gir1.2-poppler-0.18 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11 | [gir1.2-poppler-0.18 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-gir1.2-poppler-0.18-0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11.md) | Nov 24, 2020 | | Linux | libpoppler-cpp0v5 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11 | [libpoppler-cpp0v5 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libpoppler-cpp0v5-0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11.md) | Nov 24, 2020 | | Linux | libpoppler-glib8 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11 | [libpoppler-glib8 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libpoppler-glib8-0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11.md) | Nov 24, 2020 | | Linux | libpoppler-qt5-1 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11 | [libpoppler-qt5-1 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libpoppler-qt5-1-0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11.md) | Nov 24, 2020 | | Linux | libpoppler73 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11 | [libpoppler73 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libpoppler73-0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11.md) | Nov 24, 2020 | | Linux | poppler RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-cpp RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-cpp ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-cpp-devel RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-cpp-devel ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-devel RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-devel ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-glib RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-glib ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-glib-devel RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-glib-devel ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-qt5 RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-qt5 ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-qt5-devel RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-qt5-devel ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-utils RHEL 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [RHSA-2021:1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2021-1881.md) | May 18, 2021 | | Linux | poppler-utils Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11 | [poppler-utils 0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-poppler-utils-0.62.0-2ubuntu2.11.md) | Nov 24, 2020 | | Linux | poppler-utils ol 8 | 0:20.11.0-2.el8 | [ELSA-2021-1881](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2021-1881.md) | May 25, 2021 | --- Data as of 2026-11-08T06:59:42Z UTC. 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