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Ubuntu: USN-3638-1 (CVE-2017-18185): QPDF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3638-1 (CVE-2017-18185): QPDF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/15/2018
Modified
05/15/2018

Description

An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. There is a large heap-based out-of-bounds read in the Pl_Buffer::write function in Pl_Buffer.cc. It is caused by an integer overflow in the PNG filter.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf21
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qpdf

References

  • USN-3638-1
  • CVE-2017-18185

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