USN-4642-1

It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled certain memory operations during PDF summary generation. An attacker could use this to cause out-of-bounds writes, resulting in a denial of service (system crash) or arbitrary code execution.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / pdfresurrect

Package

Name: pdfresurrect
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pdfresurrect@0.12-6ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.12-6ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.12-5

0.12-6

0.12-6ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.12-6ubuntu0.2",
            "binary_name": "pdfresurrect"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4642-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2020-9549"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}