vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-6843): libpodofo vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Jun 26, 2025

Description

Agostino Sarubbo 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(s)

no-fix-ubuntu-packageubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpodofo
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