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Unscored USN-5282-1 5 CVEs

pdfresurrect vulnerabilities

Published Jun 3, 2022 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Summary

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)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS pdfresurrect 0.12-6ubuntu0.2+esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS pdfresurrect 0.14-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS pdfresurrect 0.19-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 22.04 LTS Pro:22.04:LTS pdfresurrect 0.22-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 5

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14267
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14934
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-9549
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-20740
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3508