Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libpodofo package, versions <0.9.5-9ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBPODOFO-1173270
  • published21 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Apr 2019

Introduced: 3 Apr 2019

CVE-2019-10723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 libpodofo to version 0.9.5-9ubuntu0.1~esm1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. The PdfPagesTreeCache class in doc/PdfPagesTreeCache.cpp has an attempted excessive memory allocation because nInitialSize is not validated.