Buffer overflow in podofo - CVE-2018-20797

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36100

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20797

CWE-ID: CWE-119

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.6. There is an attempted excessive memory allocation in PoDoFo::podofo_calloc in base/PdfMemoryManagement.cpp when called from PoDoFo::PdfPredictorDecoder::PdfPredictorDecoder in base/PdfFiltersPrivate.cpp.

podofo
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro
SUSE Package Hub 15
openSUSE Leap
podofo (Alpine package)
libpodofo0_9_6-debuginfo
libpodofo0_9_6
libpodofo-devel
podofo
podofo-debuginfo
podofo-debugsource

Install update from vendor's website.

podofo (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.7-r0
libpodofo0_9_6-debuginfo - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
libpodofo0_9_6 - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
libpodofo-devel - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
podofo - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
podofo-debuginfo - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1
podofo-debugsource - update to 0.9.6-150300.3.9.1

• https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/34/

• Multiple vulnerabilities in podofo.sourceforge.net podofo
• Buffer overflow in podofo (Alpine package)
• SUSE update for podofo