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Debian: DSA-5960-1 critical: djvulibre arbitrary code execution

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2025
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A critical buffer overflow flaw in DjVuLibre permits remote code execution through specially crafted DjVu documents. Update immediately.
Antonio Morales discovered an out-of-bounds write in the MMRDecoder::scanruns method in djvulibre, a library and set of tools to handle documents in the DjVu format, which may resu...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.5.28-2.1~deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your djvulibre packages.

For the detailed security status of djvulibre please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/djvulibre

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: djvulibre
CVE ID: CVE-2025-53367

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