Bug 2166998 (CVE-2021-36493)

Summary:	CVE-2021-36493 xpdf: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in pdfimages
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2023-02-03 21:50:49 UTC

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in pdfimages in xpdf 4.03 allows attackers to crash the application via crafted command.

https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42160

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2023-02-03 21:51:09 UTC

Created xpdf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2167000]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2166999]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-02-09 20:36:48 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.