vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-8981): libpodofo vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 16, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

Hanno Böck discovered that PoDoFo mishandled certain crafted PDF files, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. If PoDoFo were to open a malicious PDF, an attacker could cause PoDoFo to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpodofo
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