OESA-2023-1542

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    OESA-2023-1542

    Published: 26 Aug 2023Last Modified: 18 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-25786

    Summary: qpdf security update

    Details: QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like pdf-to-pdf. It also provides many useful capabilities to developers of PDF-producing software or for people who just want to look at the innards of a PDF file to learn more about how they work. Security Fix(es): An issue was discovered in QPDF version 10.0.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted .pdf file to Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write parameter in libqpdf.(CVE-2021-25786)

    References: https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bulletin/detail.html?id=openEuler-SA-2023-1542, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25786

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qpdf

    Purl: pkg:rpm/openEuler/qpdf&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP1

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.4.2-4.oe1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    OESA-2023-1542 | CVE-DB