CVE-2024-6239: Freedesktop Poppler

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the Poppler's Pdfinfo utility. This issue occurs when using -dests parameter with pdfinfo utility. By using certain malformed input files, an attacker could cause the utility to crash, leading to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Poppler: before 24.06.0 (fixed in 24.06.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2024-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.