Use After Free Affecting qpdf-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-QPDFDEVEL-5851053
  • published23 Aug 2023
  • disclosed11 Aug 2023

Introduced: 11 Aug 2023

CVE-2021-25786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 qpdf-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qpdf-devel package and not the qpdf-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in QPDF version 10.0.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted .pdf file to Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write parameter in libqpdf.

CVSS Scores

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