A vulnerability has been found in QPDF which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Package | app-text/qpdf on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 10.1.0 |
Unaffected versions | >= 10.1.0 |
QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer.
A vulnerability has been discovered in QPDF. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
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.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All QPDF users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/qpdf-10.1.0"
Release date
January 15, 2024
Latest revision
January 15, 2024: 1
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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