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PDFio < 1.6.5 Dangling Pointer via Dictionary String-Formatting

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • pdfio < 1.6.5

CWE
  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Joshua Rogers (AISLE Research)
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.

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