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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-24246): QPDF vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-24246): QPDF vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/29/2024
Created
03/27/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/03/2024

Description

Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf 11.9.0 allows attackers to crash the application via the std::__shared_count() function at /bits/shared_ptr_base.h.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libqpdf29
  • ubuntu-upgrade-qpdf

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