| Name | CVE-2018-20797 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 923415 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libpodofo (PTS) | jessie | 0.9.0-1.2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 0.9.4-6 | vulnerable |
| buster | 0.9.6+dfsg-5 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 0.9.7+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 0.9.8+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 0.9.8+dfsg-3.1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libpodofo | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| libpodofo | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | 923415 |
Notes
https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/34/
Negligible security impact