Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-8001  

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in UnescapeName() in PdfName.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service or possibly unspecified other impact via a crafted pdf file.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Information disclosure

Description

In PoDoFo 0.9.5, there exists a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in UnescapeName() in PdfName.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service or possibly unspecified other impact via a crafted pdf file.

AVG-1426 podofo 0.9.5-2 0.9.6-1 Medium Fixed

https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/tickets/14/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549469
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1401161
https://sourceforge.net/p/podofo/code/1909/