PDFResurrect before 0.20 lack of header validation checks causes heap-buffer-overflow in pdf_get_version().

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - PDFResurrect before 0.20 lack of header validation checks causes heap-buffer-overflow in     pdf_get_version(). (CVE-2020-20740)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5282-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly handling corrupted PDF files. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary code     execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14267)

    It was discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled memory when loading PDF pages. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or arbitrary     code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-14934)

    It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly validating header data in input PDF files. An attacker     could possibly use this issue to cause a heap buffer overflow, resulting in a denial of service, or     arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04     ESM. (CVE-2020-20740)

    Carter Yagemann discovered that PDFResurrect incorrectly handled certain memory operations during PDF     summary generation. An attacker could use this to cause out-of-bounds writes, resulting in a denial of     service (system crash) or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu     20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-9549)

    It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly processing data when performing trailer search     operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of     service. (CVE-2021-3508)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

PDFresurrect 0.21

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in pdfresurrect, a tool for analyzing and manipulating revisions to PDF documents.

CVE-2019-14934

pdf_load_pages_kids in pdf.c doesn't validate a certain size value, which leads to a malloc failure and out-of-bounds write

CVE-2020-20740

lack of header validation checks causes heap-buffer-overflow in pdf_get_version()

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.12-6+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pdfresurrect packages.

For the detailed security status of pdfresurrect please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/pdfresurrect

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256382	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-20740	Nessus	Misc.	high
183165	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : PDFResurrect vulnerabilities (USN-5282-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
143501	Fedora 33 : pdfresurrect (2020-e9f9bb77a0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
143465	Fedora 32 : pdfresurrect (2020-92195be0e2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
143440	Debian DLA-2475-1 : pdfresurrect security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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