PT-2023-12280 · Xpdf+1 · Xpdf+1

Janice · Published 2022-05-15 · Updated 2023-02-09 · CVE-2021-36493

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xpdf version 4.03

Description The issue allows attackers to crash the application via a crafted command, exploiting a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the pdfimages component of xpdf.

Recommendations For xpdf version 4.03, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2022-1867

ALT-PU-2022-2449

CVE-2021-36493

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Xpdf

References · 7

• 🔥 https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=42160 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-36493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-36493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-36493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-36493 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36493 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/57487 · Telegram Post