Hi zyx, hi Mattia, hi all,

zyx <z...@litepdf.cz> has written on 3 May 2017 at 18:24:
> 
> On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 15:47 +0200, Matthew Brincke wrote:
> 
> > on May 1st, the Debian bug #861597 [1] was filed, mentioning the CVE
> > ID
> > of this PdfParser::ReadObjects heap overflow vulnerability: CVE-2017-
> > 8378,
> > under which it's also listed in the Debian security tracker for
> > libpodofo
> > (detail page [2]).
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861597
> > [2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8378
> 
> Hi,
> nice, I gave it a quick try and using that provided PDF and the code
> suggested there, with svn trunk at revision 1824, I get this output:

very probably there are transposed digits, you actually meaning the svn
revision 1842, as the fix is in svn revision 1833 [1] committed a month
(minus ca. 4 hours) before the report on this mailing list.
> 
> Test test_cve_2017_8378 failed with error:
> 
> PoDoFo encountered an error. Error: 31
>  ePdfError_InvalidEncryptionDict
>  Error Description: The encryption dictionary is invalid or
>  misses a required key.
[... snip ...]
> 
> Thus it's already fixed in the current development version.

Yes, in svn trunk leading to version 0.9.6, but as I can't know
when that'll be released: Mattia, could you please cherry-pick the
security fixes for Debian's libpodofo0.9.4?

>  Bye,
>  zyx

Best regards, mabri

> 
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