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Mageia 7: 2020-0133 Critical: Pdfresurrect Out-of-Bounds Threat

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Revised Mageia pdfresurrect packages address a critical security flaw allowing out-of-bounds access due to specially designed PDF documents. Discover further details.
The updated package fixes a security vulnerability: In PDFResurrect 0.12 through 0.19, get_type in pdf.c has an out-of-bounds write via a crafted PDF document

Summary

The updated package fixes a security vulnerability:
In PDFResurrect 0.12 through 0.19, get_type in pdf.c has an out-of-bounds write via a crafted PDF document. (CVE-2020-9549)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26304

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00007.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-9549

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue out-of-bounds mageia pdfresurrect crafting threats

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/pdfresurrect-0.18-1.1.mga7

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Publication date: 08 Mar 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0133.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-9549

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue out-of-bounds mageia pdfresurrect crafting threats

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