It was previously discovered that there was a potential arbitrary code execution in pdfminer, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. A malicious, zipped pickle file might have contained code that might have been executed when the PDF was processed. Although a fix for this was released in pdfminer version. Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4374-2
A vulnerability was discovered in pdfminer, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a specially crafted PDF file is processed. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 20221105+dfsg-1.1~deb12u1.. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-6062-1
It was discovered that there was a potential arbitrary code execution in pdfminer, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. A malicious, zipped pickle file could have contained code that might have been executed when the PDF was processed. . - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4374-1
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