Bug 1900812 (CVE-2020-20740) - CVE-2020-20740 pdfresurrect: heap-based buffer overflow in pdf_get_version function due to lack of header validation checks
Summary: CVE-2020-20740 pdfresurrect: heap-based buffer overflow in pdf_get_version fu...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-20740
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1900813
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-23 18:45 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-11-23 23:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-23 23:33:57 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-11-23 18:45:26 UTC 
PDFResurrect before 0.20 lack of header validation checks causes heap-buffer-overflow in pdf_get_version().

Reference:
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/issues/14

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/commit/1b422459f07353adce2878806d5247d9e91fb397
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-11-23 18:45:41 UTC 
Created pdfresurrect tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1900813]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-23 23:33:57 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.
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