A poppler security update has been released for Arch Linux.

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202101-3
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Severity: High
Date : 2021-01-04
CVE-ID : CVE-2020-35702
Package : poppler
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : No
Link :   https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1382

Summary
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The package poppler before version 21.01.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
code execution.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 21.01.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "poppler>=21.01.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 21.01.0.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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DCTStream::getChars in DCTStream.cc in Poppler 20.12.1 has a heap-based
buffer overflow via a crafted PDF document.

Impact
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An attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF
document.

References
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  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1011
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/uploads/8455cee26a313a3a0174a01e4ec80e33/poc
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/commit/ae614bf8ab42c9d0c7ac57ecdfdcbcfc4ff6c639
  https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-35702