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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-26930: Classic Buffer Overflow

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-26930: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
04/26/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in XPDF v.4.04 allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service via the PDFDoc malloc in the pdftotext.cc function. NOTE: Vendor states “it's an expected abort on out-of-memory error.”

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-xpdf

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