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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-77220 EUVD-2026-64163GHSA-2fr4-jfvm-chmp

PDFio < 1.6.5 Dangling Pointer via Dictionary String-Formatting

Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Nov 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

PDFio before 1.6.5 contains a dangling pointer vulnerability in the dictionary string-formatting function that stores a pointer to a stack-local buffer in the document dictionary without copying the string value. In multi-threaded or pooled-request environments, attackers or concurrent users can trigger stack memory reuse across requests, causing cross-tenant document content corruption by silently overwriting one caller's dictionary string values with another caller's data.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
michaelrsweet pdfio < 1.6.5 1.6.5

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ippsample No fix yet —
Debian 14 pdfio 1.6.5+dfsg-1 —
Debian 12 ippsample No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ippsample No fix yet —

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