Stack Overflow Vulnerability in PoDoFo PDF Parsing Library
CVE-2021-30470

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Podofo Project

Status
Podofo
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 May 2021

What is CVE-2021-30470?

A flaw was identified in the PoDoFo library version 0.9.7, characterized by uncontrolled recursive function calls among PdfTokenizer::ReadArray(), PdfTokenizer::GetNextVariant(), and PdfTokenizer::ReadDataType(). This vulnerability can potentially result in a stack overflow, affecting the library's ability to process PDF documents properly and leading to possible application crashes or data corruption.

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Affected Version(s)

podofo PoDoFo 0.9.7

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1947436
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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