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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: USN-7217-1 moderate: PoDoFo buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A series of vulnerabilities addressed in the PoDoFo library impacting different versions of Ubuntu. Verify that your system has been updated.
Several security issues were fixed in PoDoFo.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in PoDoFo.

Software Description:

- libpodofo: PDF manipulation library

Details:

It was discovered that the PoDoFo library could dereference a NULL pointer

when getting the number of pages in a PDF. If a user or application were

tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could possibly use

this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

(CVE-2018-11255)

It was discovered that PoDoFo library incorrectly handled memory when

computing an encryption key, which could lead to a buffer overflow. If a

user or application were tricked into opening a crafted PDF file, an

attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

(CVE-2018-12983)

It was discovered that the PoDoFo library incorrectly handled memory

allocation. If a user or application were tricked into opening a crafted

PDF file, an attacker could possibl...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow Ubuntu memory allocation PDF library PoDoFo

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   libpodofo-utils                 0.9.7+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libpodofo0.9.7                  0.9.7+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
   libpodofo-utils                 0.9.6+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libpodofo0.9.6                  0.9.6+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
   libpodofo-utils                 0.9.5-9ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libpodofo0.9.5                  0.9.5-9ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
   libpodofo-utils                 0.9.3-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   libpodofo0.9.3                  0.9.3-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
   libpodofo0.9.0                  0.9.0-1.2ubuntu0.1~esm3
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7217-1

  CVE-2017-5886, CVE-2018-11255, CVE-2018-12983, CVE-2018-20797,

  CVE-2018-5308, CVE-2018-8002, CVE-2019-10723, CVE-2020-18971,

  CVE-2021-30470, CVE-2021-30471

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7217-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow Ubuntu memory allocation PDF library PoDoFo

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