CVE-2021-36978

MEDIUM

5.5

Description

QPDF 9.x through 9.1.1 and 10.x through 10.0.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write (called from Pl_AES_PDF::flush and Pl_AES_PDF::finish) when a certain downstream write fails.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score5.5

SeverityMEDIUM

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionREQUIRED

Published7/20/2021

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

qpdf_project:qpdf

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=28262(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/qpdf/OSV-2020-2245.yaml(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/dc92574c10f3e2516ec6445b88c5d584f40df4e5(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00037.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20(cve@mitre.org)

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=28262(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/qpdf/OSV-2020-2245.yaml(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/dc92574c10f3e2516ec6445b88c5d584f40df4e5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00037.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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