vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-5852): libpodofo vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 1, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

Description

Agostino Sarubbo discovered that PoDoFo mishandled certain crafted PDF files, resulting in an infinite loop. If PoDoFo were to open a malicious PDF, an attacker could cause a denial of service by forcing PoDoFo to crash, hang, or consume system resources.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpodofo
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