CVE-2021-30472

medium

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

5.5

Description

A flaw was found in PoDoFo 0.9.7. A stack-based buffer overflow in PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeOwnerKey function in PdfEncrypt.cpp is possible because of a improper check of the keyLength value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-30472

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30472.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status
arch		affected
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	affected
debian	sid	affected
debian	trixie	affected

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30472.html
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-30472

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.