CVE-2020-36023

Publication date 11 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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::cvtGlyph function.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
poppler 23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.86.1-0ubuntu1.3
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6299-1
    • poppler vulnerabilities
    • 17 August 2023

Other references