1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5282-1

USN-5282-1: PDFResurrect vulnerabilities

Publication date

3 June 2022

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in PDFResurrect.

Releases

Packages

  • pdfresurrect - tool for extracting versioning data from PDF documents

Details

It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly handling corrupted PDF
files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overflow,
resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14267)

It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled memory when loading
PDF pages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap
buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
(CVE-2019-14934)

It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly validating header data in
input PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap
buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution.
This issue only affected...

It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly handling corrupted PDF
files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overflow,
resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14267)

It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled memory when loading
PDF pages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap
buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
(CVE-2019-14934)

It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly validating header data in
input PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a heap
buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code execution.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM.
(CVE-2020-20740)

Carter Yagemann 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and
Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9549)

It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly processing data when
performing trailer search operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3508)

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
22.04 jammy pdfresurrect –  0.22-2ubuntu0.1~esm1  
20.04 focal pdfresurrect –  0.19-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
18.04 bionic pdfresurrect –  0.14-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
16.04 xenial pdfresurrect –  0.12-6ubuntu0.2+esm1  

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