MGASA-2019-0419 - Updated pdfresurrect packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 31 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0419.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2019-14267,
     CVE-2019-14934

Updated pdfresurrect package fixes security vulnerabilities:

A vulnerability was found in PDFResurrect 0.15 has a buffer overflow via
a crafted PDF file because data associated with startxref and %%EOF is
mishandled (CVE-2019-14267).

An issue was discovered in PDFResurrect before 0.18. pdf_load_pages_kids
in pdf.c doesn't validate a certain size value, which leads to a malloc
failure and out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-14934).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25942
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/LXN6W5QTNQJ2LFDCQWKYSMMZ3NPUWP3U/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14267
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14934

SRPMS:
- 7/core/pdfresurrect-0.18-1.mga7

Mageia 2019-0419: pdfresurrect security update

Updated pdfresurrect package fixes security vulnerabilities: A vulnerability was found in PDFResurrect 0.15 has a buffer overflow via a crafted PDF file because data associated wi...

Summary

Updated pdfresurrect package fixes security vulnerabilities:
A vulnerability was found in PDFResurrect 0.15 has a buffer overflow via a crafted PDF file because data associated with startxref and %%EOF is mishandled (CVE-2019-14267).
An issue was discovered in PDFResurrect before 0.18. pdf_load_pages_kids in pdf.c doesn't validate a certain size value, which leads to a malloc failure and out-of-bounds write (CVE-2019-14934).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25942

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/LXN6W5QTNQJ2LFDCQWKYSMMZ3NPUWP3U/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14267

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14934

Resolution

MGASA-2019-0419 - Updated pdfresurrect packages fix security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 7/core/pdfresurrect-0.18-1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 31 Dec 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0419.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-14267, CVE-2019-14934

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