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Debian LTS: Security Advisory for pdfresurrect (DLA-2475-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

3 years ago

Modified

Modified

3 years ago

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.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)