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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for pdfresurrect (DLA-2475-1)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'pdfresurrect' package(s) announced via the DLA-2475-1 advisory.
Insight
Insight
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in pdfresurrect, a tool for analyzing and manipulating revisions to PDF documents. CVE-2019-14934 pdf_load_pages_kids in pdf.c doesn't validate a certain size value, which leads to a malloc failure and out-of-bounds write CVE-2020-20740 lack of header validation checks causes heap-buffer-overflow in pdf_get_version()
Affected Software
Affected Software
'pdfresurrect' package(s) on Debian Linux.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.12-6+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your pdfresurrect packages.