DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36978

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-36978
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36978.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-36978
Upstream
Published
2021-07-20T07:15:08.030Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:04:31.044689Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

QPDF 9.x through 9.1.1 and 10.x through 10.0.4 has a heap-based buffer overflow in PlASCII85Decoder::write (called from PlAESPDF::flush and PlAES_PDF::finish) when a certain downstream write fails.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / qpdf

Package

Name
qpdf
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qpdf?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
10.1.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / qpdf

Package

Name
qpdf
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qpdf?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
10.1.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / qpdf

Package

Name
qpdf
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qpdf?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
10.1.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / qpdf

Package

Name
qpdf
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/qpdf?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
10.1.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}