QPDF: Buffer Overflow

QPDF: Buffer Overflow A vulnerability has been found in QPDF which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. qpdf 2024-01-15 2024-01-15 803110 remote 10.1.0 10.1.0

QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer.

A vulnerability has been discovered in QPDF. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

QPDF 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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All QPDF users should upgrade to the latest version:


          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/qpdf-10.1.0"

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