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Fedora 40: 2024-7d55be81bd Moderate: QPDF Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 40 enhances qpdf to mitigate potential Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities, bolstering system integrity and efficiency.
2267205 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24246 qpdf - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf [fedora-all] 2265854 - qpdf-11.9.0 is available

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 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24246 qpdf - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf [fedora-all] 2265854 - qpdf-11.9.0 is available

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora update buffer heap qpdf

Change Log

* Fri Mar 1 2024 Zdenek Dohnal - 11.9.0-1 - 2267205 - TRIAGE CVE-2024-24246 qpdf - Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf [fedora-all] - 2265854 - qpdf-11.9.0 is available

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-2024-7d55be81bd' 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 40
Version: 11.9.0
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://qpdf.sourceforge.io/
Summary: Command-line tools and library for transforming PDF files

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora update buffer heap qpdf

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