Medium
Security advisory
Stack-based Buffer Overflow in PoDoFo v0.9.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the component 'src/base/PdfDictionary.cpp:65'.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-18971
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Stack-based Buffer Overflow in PoDoFo v0.9.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via the component 'src/base/PdfDictionary.cpp:65'.
osv:CVE-2020-18971
Complete source record
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