ELA-928-1 poppler security update

two vulnerabilities

2023-08-21
Packagepoppler
Version0.26.5-2+deb8u16 (jessie), 0.48.0-2+deb9u6 (stretch)
Related CVEs CVE-2020-36023 CVE-2020-36024


Two vulnerabilities have been fixed in poppler, a PDF rendering library.

CVE-2020-36023

Infinite loop in FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph()

CVE-2020-36024

NULL dereference in FoFiType1C::convertToType1()


For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.26.5-2+deb8u16.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.48.0-2+deb9u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.

Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.