Bug 1951198 (CVE-2021-3508) - CVE-2021-3508 pdfresurrect: infinite loop in get_xref_linear_skipped() in pdf.c
Summary: CVE-2021-3508 pdfresurrect: infinite loop in get_xref_linear_skipped() in pdf.c
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2021-3508
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1951199
Blocks: 1951200
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-19 19:27 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-04-20 14:40 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: PDFResurrect 0.23b
Doc Type: ---
Doc Text:
A flaw was found in PDFResurrect in version 0.22b. There is an infinite loop in get_xref_linear_skipped() in pdf.c via a crafted PDF file.
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Last Closed: 2021-04-19 22:46:31 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-19 19:27:17 UTC
A flaw was found in PDFResurrect in version 0.22b. There is a infinite loop in get_xref_linear_skipped() in pdf.c via a crafted PDF file.

Reference:
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/issues/17

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/commit/7e35d1806e111fd28610ccc86bb33f54792ac370

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-19 19:27:21 UTC
External References:

https://github.com/enferex/pdfresurrect/issues/17

Comment 2 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-19 19:27:34 UTC
Created pdfresurrect tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1951199]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-04-19 22:46:31 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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