glsa-202401-20.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202401-20">
    <title>QPDF: Buffer Overflow</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in QPDF which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">qpdf</product>
    <announced>2024-01-15</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-01-15</revised>
    <bug>803110</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-text/qpdf" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">10.1.0</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">10.1.0</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in QPDF. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>QPDF 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.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All QPDF users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/qpdf-10.1.0"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36978">CVE-2021-36978</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-01-15T13:05:16.102082Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-01-15T13:05:16.105037Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>