PT-2019-10238 · Podofo+5 · Podofo+5

Pwd · Published 2019-02-27 · Updated 2025-09-04 · CVE-2018-20797

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PoDoFo version 0.9.6

Description: An issue was discovered in PoDoFo where there is an attempted excessive memory allocation in PoDoFo::podofo calloc when called from PoDoFo::PdfPredictorDecoder::PdfPredictorDecoder.

Recommendations: For PoDoFo version 0.9.6, consider applying a patch or fix to address the excessive memory allocation issue in PoDoFo::podofo calloc to prevent potential exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-1684

ALT-PU-2022-3234

CVE-2018-20797

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12049-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024_2137-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1

SUSE-SU-2024:2137-1

USN-7217-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Linuxmint

Podofo

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 60

• 🔥 https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/34 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7217-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11255 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10723 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-30471 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-20797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2024:2137-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8002 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:15521-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20797 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20797 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-30470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5308 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20797 · Vendor Advisory