UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20797

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20797

    Published: 27 Feb 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-20797
    Aliases:
    USN-7217-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20797, https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/34/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20797, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7217-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libpodofo

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.9.3-4ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    0.9.0-1.3
    0.9.3-3
    0.9.3-4

    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