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GLSA-202401-20 : QPDF: Buffer Overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 188047

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-20 (QPDF: Buffer Overflow)

 - 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-2021-36978)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All QPDF users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=app-text/qpdf-10.1.0

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803110

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 188047

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202401-20.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 1/15/2024

Updated: 1/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-36978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:qpdf, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-36978