USN-8950-1: poppler vulnerability
USN-8950-1
Summary
It was discovered that XZ Utils incorrectly handled certain memory allocation failures when reinitializing decoders for specific compressed file formats. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger an invalid memory write, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution.
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