Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 20, 2021· Updated Oct 15, 2024
CVE-2021-36978
CVE-2021-36978
Description
QPDF 9.x through 9.1.1 and 10.x through 10.0.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write (called from Pl_AES_PDF::flush and Pl_AES_PDF::finish) when a certain downstream write fails.
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Affected products
34- QPDF/QPDFdescription
- Range: >=9.0, <=9.1.1 or >=10.0, <=10.0.4
- osv-coords32 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qpdf&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/qpdf&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP2-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.1pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.1pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.1pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%209pkg:rpm/suse/qpdf&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%209
< 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1+ 31 more
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 8.0.2-150000.3.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 9.0.2-150200.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 7.1.1-3.8.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20mitrevendor-advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00037.htmlmitremailing-list
- bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detailmitre
- github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/qpdf/OSV-2020-2245.yamlmitre
- github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/dc92574c10f3e2516ec6445b88c5d584f40df4e5mitre
- github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492mitre
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