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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-36978): QPDF vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-36978): QPDF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/20/2021
Created
08/03/2021
Added
07/30/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf21
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf26
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qpdf

References

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