CVE-2012-2142

Key facts

CVSS score

7.8 (v3.1)

Severity

HIGH

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

2.9% (87th percentile)

In CISA KEV

No

In EU EUVD

Yes (EUVD-2012-2139)

Published

January 9, 2020

NVD last modified

June 16, 2026

Status

Modified

Affected products

• freedesktop / poppler
• opensuse / opensuse
• redhat / enterprise linux
• redhat / enterprise linux
• xpdfreader / xpdf

Certified products that may be affected

7 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v4.0 [1] and Red Hat Enterprise Linux libgcrypt Cryptographic Module v5.0 [2] - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 2657 - historical
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH Client Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1385 - historical
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSwan Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1386 - historical
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Kernel Crypto API Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1387 - historical

See all 7 in the Security Certifications Explorer.

References

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=71bad47ed6a36d825b0d08992c8db56845c71e40(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/NEWS?id=2bc48d5369f1dbecfc4db2878f33bdeb80d8d90f(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00049.html(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/5(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/09/6(Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789936(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)