Out-of-Bounds Affecting libpodofo package, versions <0.9.4-5
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBPODOFO-1550421
- published15 Mar 2017
- disclosed15 Mar 2017
Introduced: 15 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-6844 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 libpodofo to version 0.9.4-5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpodofo package and not the libpodofo package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
Buffer overflow in the PoDoFo::PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function in PdfParser.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6844
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6844
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/02/podofo-global-buffer-overflow-in-podofopdfparserreadxrefsubsection-pdfparser-cpp/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-6844