Résumé

pypdf: Possible large memory usage when parsing font data

Détails de l’avis

Impact

An attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to large memory consumption. This requires parsing the /Widths entry of a TrueType or Type1 fonts with unusually large values, for example during text extraction.

Patches

This has been fixed in pypdf==6.18.1.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade yet, consider applying the changes from PR #4072.

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