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CVE-2021-36978
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-07-20T07:15:08.030 · Last modified 2026-06-17T03:59:45.627

Summary

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.

Affected products

qpdf_project — qpdf

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References

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