CVE-2021-36978

Summary

CVECVE-2021-36978
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-07-20 07:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-15 14:15:00 UTC
DescriptionQPDF 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf All All All All
Application Qpdf Project Qpdf All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Heap-use-after-free in `Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write` · Issue #492 · qpdf/qpdf · GitHub MISC github.com
Fix some pipelines to be safe if downstream write fails (fuzz issue 2… · qpdf/qpdf@dc92574 · GitHub MISC github.com
QPDF: Buffer Overflow (GLSA 202401-20) — Gentoo security security.gentoo.org
oss-fuzz-vulns/OSV-2020-2245.yaml at main · google/oss-fuzz-vulns · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3548-1] qpdf security update MLIST lists.debian.org
28262 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180596 Debian Security Update for qpdf (CVE-2021-36978)
  • 198446 Ubuntu Security Notification for QPDF vulnerabilities (USN-5026-1)
  • 355553 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for qpdf : ALAS2-2023-2104
  • 6000077 Debian Security Update for qpdf (DLA 3548-1)
  • 710840 Gentoo Linux QPDF Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (GLSA 202401-20)
  • 752442 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qpdf (SUSE-SU-2022:2669-1)
  • 752443 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qpdf (SUSE-SU-2022:2670-1)
  • 752576 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qpdf (SUSE-SU-2022:3248-1)
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