Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pypdf2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published1 Oct 2026
- disclosed30 Sept 2026
Introduced: 30 Sep 2026
NewCVE-2026-102996 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:12.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pypdf2 package and not the pypdf2 package as distributed by Debian.
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.18.1, a crafted PDF can provide a TrueType or Type1 simple font with an unusually large /Widths array, causing pypdf/_font.py Font._collect_tt_t1_character_widths to process entries beyond the 256 character codes meaningful for a simple font and consume excessive memory during operations such as text extraction. This issue is fixed in version 6.18.1.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-102996
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/commit/0fb26eb8cdd01c44b3b2c9fe8329751be2f7cfd5
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/pull/4072
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/releases/tag/6.18.1
- https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/security/advisories/GHSA-g9cg-prrw-2r8q