Bug 2223736 (CVE-2020-22336)

Summary:	CVE-2020-22336 pdfcrack: stack overflow in MD5 function leads to code execution
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Chess Hazlett <chazlett>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Doc Text:	An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2223737, 2223738
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Description Chess Hazlett 2023-07-18 17:38:41 UTC

An issue was discovered in pdfcrack 0.17 thru 0.18, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a stack overflow in the MD5 function.
https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfcrack/bugs/12/

Comment 1 Chess Hazlett 2023-07-18 17:38:56 UTC

Created pdfcrack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 2223738]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2223737]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-08-01 13:08:00 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.