CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-30470

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: May 26, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. An uncontrolled recursive call among PdfTokenizer::ReadArray(), PdfTokenizer::GetNextVariant() and PdfTokenizer::ReadDataType() functions can lead to a stack overflow.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
PodofoPodofo_project0.9.7 (including)0.9.7 (including)
LibpodofoUbuntubionic*
LibpodofoUbuntuesm-apps/focal*
LibpodofoUbuntuesm-apps/jammy*
LibpodofoUbuntufocal*
LibpodofoUbuntugroovy*
LibpodofoUbuntuhirsute*
LibpodofoUbuntuimpish*
LibpodofoUbuntujammy*
LibpodofoUbuntukinetic*
LibpodofoUbuntulunar*
LibpodofoUbuntumantic*
LibpodofoUbuntutrusty*
LibpodofoUbuntutrusty/esm*
LibpodofoUbuntuupstream*
LibpodofoUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References