Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libpodofo package, versions <0.9.6+dfsg-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBPODOFO-1550433
  • published11 Mar 2019
  • disclosed11 Mar 2019

Introduced: 11 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9687  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libpodofo to version 0.9.6+dfsg-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.

PoDoFo 0.9.6 has a heap-based buffer overflow in PdfString::ConvertUTF16toUTF8 in base/PdfString.cpp.