CVE-2021-36978
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36978
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-36978.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-36978
- Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
- Related
- Published
- 2021-07-20T07:15:08Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-16T04:03:20Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00037.html
- https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/qpdf/OSV-2020-2245.yaml
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=28262
- https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/dc92574c10f3e2516ec6445b88c5d584f40df4e5