1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4642-1

USN-4642-1: PDFResurrect vulnerability

Publication date

24 November 2020

Overview

PDFResurrect could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

  • pdfresurrect - tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

Details

It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled certain memory
operations during PDF summary generation. An attacker could use this to
cause out-of-bounds writes, resulting in a denial of service (system crash)
or arbitrary code execution.

It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled certain memory
operations during PDF summary generation. An attacker could use this to
cause out-of-bounds writes, resulting in a denial of service (system crash)
or arbitrary code execution.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial pdfresurrect –  0.12-6ubuntu0.2

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