Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2104
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-21 19:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-29 19:46 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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. (CVE-2021-36978)
Affected Packages:
qpdf
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update qpdf to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
qpdf-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
qpdf-libs-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
qpdf-devel-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
qpdf-debuginfo-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
i686:
qpdf-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.i686
qpdf-libs-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.i686
qpdf-devel-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.i686
qpdf-debuginfo-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.i686
noarch:
qpdf-doc-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.noarch
src:
qpdf-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
qpdf-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
qpdf-libs-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
qpdf-devel-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
qpdf-debuginfo-5.0.1-4.amzn2.0.2.x86_64