Kofax Power PDF PNG File Parser heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Kofax Power PDF. It has been rated as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component PNG File Parser. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-37342. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Kofax Power PDF (version unknown). This issue affects an unknown function of the component PNG File Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Kofax Power PDF PNG File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Kofax Power PDF. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of PNG files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-20439.

The weakness was released 07/13/2023. The advisory is shared at zerodayinitiative.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-37342 since 06/30/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Document Reader Software

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• Kofax

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• Power PDF

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• commercial

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