Bug 2218072 (CVE-2023-3436)

Summary:	CVE-2023-3436 xpdf: deadlock on a PDF object stream
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-06-28 04:43:30 UTC

Xpdf 4.04 will deadlock on a PDF object stream whose "Length" field is itself in another object stream.



https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?t=42618

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2023-06-28 04:43:53 UTC

Created xpdf tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2218073]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2218074]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-06-28 09:41:03 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.