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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-4642-1 Critical: PDFResurrect Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 23, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Upgrade your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation to address the PDFResurrect security flaw, which could lead to system instability and potential remote code execution threats.
PDFResurrect could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

PDFResurrect could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- pdfresurrect: tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

Details:

It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled certain memory

operations during PDF summary generation. An attacker could use this to

cause out-of-bounds writes, resulting in a denial of service (system crash)

or arbitrary code execution.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical issue Ubuntu pdfresurrect

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  pdfresurrect                    0.12-6ubuntu0.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4642-1

CVE-2020-9549

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November 24, 2020

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security advisory denial of service critical issue Ubuntu pdfresurrect

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdfresurrect/0.12-6ubuntu0.2

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