Bug 1683914 (CVE-2018-20797)

Summary:	CVE-2018-20797 podofo: excessive memory allocation in PoDoFo::podofo_calloc in base/PdfMemoryManagement.cpp
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dan, manisandro
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-28 06:01:33 UTC

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.

Reference:
https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/34/

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-28 06:02:28 UTC

Created podofo tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1683915]

Comment 2 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-02-28 06:02:45 UTC

Created podofo tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1683916]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:49:01 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.