CVE-2024-24246

Publication date 29 February 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in qpdf 11.9.0 allows attackers to crash the application via the std::__shared_count() function at /bits/shared_ptr_base.h.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
qpdf	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 11.5.0-1ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
qpdf	Upstream: cb0f390

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6713-1
QPDF vulnerability
25 March 2024