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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-36978: QPDF: Buffer Overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-36978: QPDF: Buffer Overflow

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/20/2021
Created
01/17/2024
Added
01/16/2024
Modified
01/16/2024

Description

QPDF 9.x through 9.1.1 and 10.x through 10.0.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write (called from Pl_AES_PDF::flush and Pl_AES_PDF::finish) when a certain downstream write fails.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-text-qpdf

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