NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpodofo  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-LIBPODOFO-654109
  • published21 Apr 2017
  • disclosed21 Apr 2017

Introduced: 21 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7994  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpodofo package and not the libpodofo package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The function TextExtractor::ExtractText in TextExtractor.cpp:77 in PoDoFo 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted PDF document.