Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2021-36978 First vendor Publication 2021-07-20
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-01-15

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 5.5
Base Score 5.5 Environmental Score 5.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 5.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 1.8
 
Attack Vector Local Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

QPDF 9.x through 9.1.1 and 10.x through 10.0.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in Pl_ASCII85Decoder::write (called from Pl_AES_PDF::flush and Pl_AES_PDF::finish) when a certain downstream write fails.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36978

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6

Sources (Detail)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-20
Source Url
MISC https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=28262
https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-vulns/blob/main/vulns/qpdf/OSV-2020-2245.yaml
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/commit/dc92574c10f3e2516ec6445b88c5d584f40df4e5
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/issues/492
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00037.html

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Date Informations
2024-01-15 17:27:47
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2023-09-01 21:27:45
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2022-07-30 02:03:25
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2021-07-29 21:23:19
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2021-07-20 17:22:47
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2021-07-20 13:22:49
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