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OESA-2025-2621 (CVE-2020-36024)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2025-11-07 11:09 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:09 – Source website

Summary

poppler security update

Details

Poppler is a free software utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. \ Its development is supported by freedesktop.org. It is commonly used on Linux systems,and is used by \ the PDF viewers of the open source GNOME and KDE desktop environments.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2020-36024)

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36024	ADVISORY

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  "affected": [
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      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "aarch64": [
          "poppler-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-cpp-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-cpp-devel-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-debuginfo-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-debugsource-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-devel-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-glib-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-glib-devel-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-qt5-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-qt5-devel-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm",
          "poppler-utils-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.aarch64.rpm"
        ],
        "noarch": [
          "poppler-glib-doc-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.noarch.rpm",
          "poppler-help-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.noarch.rpm"
        ],
        "src": [
          "poppler-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.src.rpm"
        ],
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          "poppler-cpp-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.x86_64.rpm",
          "poppler-cpp-devel-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.x86_64.rpm",
          "poppler-debuginfo-0.90.0-17.oe2203sp3.x86_64.rpm",
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      },
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            }
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        }
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    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Poppler is a free software utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. \\ Its development is supported by freedesktop.org. It is commonly used on Linux systems,and is used by \\ the PDF viewers of the open source GNOME and KDE desktop environments.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\nAn 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.(CVE-2020-36024)",
  "id": "OESA-2025-2621",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:09:44Z",
  "published": "2025-11-07T11:09:44Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2025-2621"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36024"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.2",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "poppler security update",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2020-36024"
  ]
}

CVE-2020-36024 (GCVE-0-2020-36024)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-11 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:25

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-10-09 17:56 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

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