CVE-2021-36978 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Qpdf Project	Qpdf

Configuration 1 [-]

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=28262
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/qpdf/OSV-2020-2245.yaml
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/dc92574c10f3e2516ec6445b88c5d584f40df4e5
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00037.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36978
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36978

History

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-07-20T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-10-15T17:14:33.718Z

Reserved: 2021-07-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-36978

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:09:07.769Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-20T07:15:08.030

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:14:25.750

Link: CVE-2021-36978

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-01-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-36978 - Bugzilla

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