Out-of-bounds Write Affecting kermitt2/pdfalto package, versions [0,0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.25% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERMITT2PDFALTO-2367465
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18274  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kermitt2/pdfalto to version 0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. A issue was found in pdfalto 0.2. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in the TextPage::addAttributsNode function in XmlAltoOutputDev.cc.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1