CVE catalog

CVE-2021-3508

pdfresurrect: CVE-2021-3508

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium · CVSS 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.69% · Oct 25, 2026

A flaw was found in PDFResurrect in version 0.22b. There is an infinite loop in get_xref_linear_skipped() in pdf.c via a crafted PDF file.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianpdfresurrectsid0.23-2fixed
Debianpdfresurrectforky0.23-2fixed
Debianpdfresurrecttrixie0.23-2fixed
Debianpdfresurrectbookworm0.23-2fixed

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianpdfresurrectsourcesid0.22-3unimportantNot reportedNot reported
Debianpdfresurrectsourceforky0.22-3unimportantNot reportedNot reported
Debianpdfresurrectsourcetrixie0.22-3unimportantNot reportedNot reported
Debianpdfresurrectsourcebookworm0.22-3unimportantNot reportedNot reported

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • [pdfresurrect]Fixed
    Details (2)

    • 0.23-2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.22-3

      dsa · pdfresurrect · debian · bookworm; dsa · pdfresurrect · debian · 12

    • 0.23-2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.22-3

      dsa · pdfresurrect · debian · bookworm; dsa · pdfresurrect · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

  • [pdfresurrect]Fixed

    Source package: [pdfresurrect]

    Details (2)

    • 0.23-2 · amd64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.22-3

      dsa · pdfresurrect · debian · 13

    • 0.23-2+b1 · arm64 · trixie

      Fixed · Fixed: 0.22-3

      dsa · pdfresurrect · debian · 13

Observed:

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]