[Secure-testing-team] Bug#859331: libpodofo: CVE-2017-7379: heap-based buffer overflow in PoDoFo::PdfSimpleEncoding::ConvertToEncoding (PdfEncoding.cpp)

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libpodofo
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libpodofo.

CVE-2017-7379[0]:
|heap-based buffer overflow in
|PoDoFo::PdfSimpleEncoding::ConvertToEncoding (PdfEncoding.cpp)

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7379
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7379

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore