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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2024-daa7df59d6 Critical: QPDF Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch for qpdf in Fedora 38 tackling heap memory overflow flaw to bolster system safety.
2267205 - CVE-2024-24246 qpdf - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf [fedora-all]

Summary

QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving

transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something

like pdf-to-pdf. It includes support for merging and splitting PDFs

and to manipulate the list of pages in a PDF file. It is not a PDF viewer

or a program capable of converting PDF into other formats.

Update Information:

2267205 - CVE-2024-24246 qpdf - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf [fedora-all]

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical heap buffer overflow qpdf

Change Log

* Fri Mar 1 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 11.6.4-2 - 2267205 - CVE-2024-24246 qpdf - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf [fedora-all]

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2267204 - CVE-2024-24246 qpdf: Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267204

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-daa7df59d6' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: qpdf
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 11.6.4
Release: 2.fc38
URL: https://qpdf.sourceforge.io/
Summary: Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update critical heap buffer overflow qpdf

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