Bug 2498171 (CVE-2026-59938)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-59938 pypdf: pypdf: Possible large memory usage for wrong image dimensions | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | anpicker, aruklets, bbrownin, bparees, doconnor, dschmidt, hasun, jfula, jlanda, jowilson, kshier, nyancey, ometelka, ptisnovs, simaishi, stcannon, syedriko, teagle, xdharmai, yguenane, ytale |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in pypdf, a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious PDF file with image size values that are significantly larger than the actual embedded image data, causing pypdf to allocate large amounts of memory when processing the file.
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2026-07-08 18:01:28 UTC
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